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 help but exclaim,

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

first day of the show, Eileen was the first to get dressed and leave, then the other two male guests came

be

guy,” she thought, “was one

alone?” Eddie

girl. In this rainforest, survival was much harder for

teams they had met,

“Was your teammate

casually replied,

for you alone,

“What do

to the team would slow them down but still said, “Sure.”

told Eileen, “Come over

for a moment before leaping down from the tree and

her empty hands, asked casually, “You run out of supplies? Have

/we push on.”

that, they were ready to move

“You

reach that high, that clue is

height of the

she stretched her wrists and started

Eddie called

said, “It’s

didn’t finish his

up the tree like a snake, already reaching the

and Eddie

Eileen jumped down from the tree, a green ribbon clutched in her teeth.

dusted off her hands, read the words on the ribbon, then looked up to meet two pairs of wide, shocked

Eileen frowned, “What?”

hide his awe, “You’re so nimble.”

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

his lips, which were already

to Eddie, “One hundred bucks for a bottle

skills, was stunned by her offer,

just asking if

now, but

curved into crescents, “If you tried to break your promise, I have ways to get my money back.

Eddie asked, “They?”

Eddie knew what

with a backpack, Burton with two, and empty-handed

casually handed the green ribbon to Egbert.

water from Burton’s

caught it and quickly opened

drinking half of it, he handed the bottle to Lucas.

the water.

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