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.

the girl, he couldn’t

the handsome man, thought for

was the first to get dressed

to be

guy,” she thought, “was one

are you alone?” Eddie asked.

girl. In this rainforest, survival was much

had met,

“Was

casually replied, “Yeah, he was.”

suggesting, “If it’s hard for

looked to Lucas, “What do you

to the team would slow them down

Eileen, “Come over

leaping down from the tree and walking over.

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

/we push on.”

ready to move

“You are not getting

“We can’t reach that high, that clue

the tree, “It’s not that high.”

that, she stretched her wrists and

don’t!” Eddie called

said, “It’s too dangerous, you…”

finish

girl slithered up the tree

Eddie

tree, a green ribbon clutched in her teeth.

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

Eileen frowned, “What?”

full of excitement, couldn’t hide his awe, “You’re

she stared at Lucas for a moment before asking, “You guys

subconsciously touched his lips, which were already cracked and bleeding.

bucks for a bottle

was

just asking if you

the money now, but

tried to break your promise, I have ways to get my money back.

Eddie asked, “They?”

later, Eddie knew what ‘they’ meant.

with two, and empty-handed Egbert,

casually handed the green ribbon to Egbert.

of creek water from Burton’s backpack and tossed it to

and quickly opened the

he handed the bottle to Lucas.

the water.

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