Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen

Chapter 89

Chapter 89

The weather was scorching hot, and water was scarce.

Newbie Lucas and celeb Eddie, were running on empty, having not had a drop of water for over fifteen hours.

“You okay?” Eddie grunted as he pulled out the last crumbly biscuit from his backpack and offered it to Lucas, “take this.”

Leaning heavily against a hefty tree, Lucas tried to keep his balance. He looked at the biscuit, his voice raspy, “No, you keep it.”

Eddie insisted, “No, eat it. It’s been too long since you’ve had anything.”

Lucas didn’t respond.

Eddie felt bad, “I’m sorry, it’s all my fault. If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t have hurt your leg. How’s your leg now?”

Lucas shook his head, “It’s okay, I’ve been through survival training before, this injury isn’t gonna stop me.”

They fell into a brief silence.

After a while, Eddie split the last biscuit into two and said, “We’ll share.”

This time, Lucas hesitated a moment before accepting his half.

They finished the biscuit.

Eddie felt bitter.

A single biscuit had to feed two people.

The taste of the biscuit didn’t even linger for three seconds before it was gone.

The atmosphere between them grew heavy again.

Suddenly, Lucas looked up, staring at the tree top, “Is there something hanging up there?”

Eddie squinted, “Looks like a green ribbon? Can’t really tell.”

“It’s a ribbon!” Lucas started to gauge how high the ribbon was and eventually shook his head, “I can’t reach, it’s too high.”

The tree was massive, the ribbon was tied at the very top, nearly five stories high.

No ordinary Joe could climb that high without safety gear, and if anything went south, the fall would be disastrous.

Eddie sighed, “If we miss this green ribbon, we’ll lose another clue. The last blue ribbon was tied to a freaking crocodile, that was

nuts…”

“Crocodile? What kind of crocodile? Where’d you see it?”

Suddenly, a voice came from behind, scaring the bejesus out of Lucas and Eddie!

They turned to see a camouflaged, pretty young girl perched on a tree not far away, swinging her legs, watching them.

he couldn’t help but

at the handsome man,

was the first to get dressed

first to be dropped

“was one

alone?” Eddie asked.

knew Eileen wasn’t well-liked, but she was still a girl. In this rainforest, survival

had met, he’d

tried asking, “Was your teammate eliminated?”

glanced at him, casually

before suggesting, “If it’s hard for you alone, why don’t you

“What

the team would slow

“Come over here.”

moment before leaping down from the tree and

asked casually, “You run out of supplies? Have you lost your backpack? No worries,

/we push on.”

they were ready

stayed put, “You are

“We can’t reach that high,

the height of the tree, “It’s not that high.”

that, she stretched her wrists and started climbing the

Eddie

“It’s too dangerous, you…”

finish

athletic girl slithered up the tree

Eddie were stunned.

the tree, a green ribbon clutched in

hands, read the words on the ribbon, then looked up to meet

Eileen frowned, “What?”

full of excitement, couldn’t hide his awe,

a moment before asking, “You guys got

touched his lips, which

Eddie, “One hundred bucks for a

in awe of Eileen’s climbing skills, was stunned by

just asking if you want

don’t have the money now, but I promise

eyes curved into crescents, “If you tried to break your promise, I have ways to get my money back. Wait, they should be here

Eddie asked, “They?”

Eddie knew what ‘they’

two,

the green

took a bottle of creek water from

quickly opened the cap,

half of it, he handed

the water.

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