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

turned her head, staring at the handsome man, thought for a moment before

the first day of the show, Eileen was the first to get dressed and leave,

first to be dropped into the jungle.

thought, “was

alone?” Eddie

wasn’t well-liked, but she was still a girl. In this rainforest, survival was much harder for girls than boys.

met, he’d heard some people had

asking, “Was your teammate eliminated?”

him, casually replied, “Yeah,

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

“What do you think?”

woman to the team would slow them down but

“Come over

was silent for a moment before leaping down from the tree and walking over.

“You run out of supplies? Have you lost

/we push on.”

that, they were ready

“You

that high, that

at the height of the tree, “It’s not that

wrists and started

don’t!” Eddie

said, “It’s too dangerous,

didn’t finish his

tree like a snake, already reaching the first branch and skillfully continuing her climb.

Eddie

jumped down from the tree, a green ribbon clutched

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

Eileen frowned, “What?”

hide his awe,

stared at Lucas for a moment before asking, “You guys got anything to

lips, which

turned to Eddie, “One hundred bucks

of Eileen’s climbing skills, was

if you want it?”

the money now, but

crescents, “If you tried to break your promise, I have ways to get my

Eddie asked, “They?”

minutes later, Eddie knew

a backpack, Burton with two,

casually handed the green ribbon

of creek water from Burton’s backpack

caught it and quickly opened the cap, gulping do

it, he handed

the water.

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