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.

couldn’t help

man, thought

Eileen was the first to get dressed and leave, then the

the first to be dropped into the

she thought, “was one of them.”

are you alone?”

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

thought about the other teams they had met, he’d heard

tried asking, “Was your teammate

casually replied,

suggesting, “If it’s hard for you

“What do

to the team would slow them down but still

“Come over

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

of supplies? Have you lost your backpack? No worries, we can find

/we push on.”

were ready to move on.

hands in pockets, stayed put, “You are

can’t reach that high, that clue is

at the height of the tree, “It’s

she stretched her wrists and started climbing

don’t!” Eddie

also said, “It’s too dangerous,

finish

seconds, he watched as the athletic girl slithered up the tree like a snake, already reaching the first branch and skillfully

and Eddie

down from the tree, a green ribbon clutched

on the ribbon, then looked up to meet two pairs of

Eileen frowned, “What?”

hide his awe,

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

lips, which were already cracked and

bucks for a bottle of

awe of Eileen’s climbing skills, was stunned

“I’m just asking if you want it?”

money now, but I promise I’ll pay you

have ways to get my money back.

Eddie asked, “They?”

later, Eddie knew what ‘they’

with two, and empty-handed Egbert, slowly approached.

the green

creek water from Burton’s backpack

caught it and quickly opened the cap, gulping

drinking half of it, he handed the bottle to

the water.

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