Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen by Lopez family's

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.

Eddie recognized the girl, he couldn’t help but exclaim, “Eileen?”

the handsome man, thought for a moment before replying, “Hey,

get dressed and leave, then the other

the first to be

guy,” she thought, “was one of them.”

alone?” Eddie asked.

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

other teams they had met, he’d heard

tried asking, “Was your

casually replied, “Yeah,

hesitated before suggesting, “If it’s hard for you alone, why

“What do you

to the team would slow them down

“Come over here.”

silent for a moment before leaping

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

/we push on.”

were ready to move

“You

can’t reach that

at the height of the tree, “It’s

that, she stretched her wrists and started climbing the tree.

Eddie

also said, “It’s too

didn’t finish his sentence!

as the athletic girl slithered up the tree like a snake, already reaching the first branch and skillfully continuing her

and Eddie were

jumped down from the tree, a green ribbon clutched in

ribbon, then looked up to meet two pairs of

Eileen frowned, “What?”

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

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

subconsciously touched his lips, which were already cracked and

turned to Eddie, “One hundred bucks for a bottle of water,

climbing skills, was stunned by her offer, “You

“I’m just asking if you want

I don’t have the money now, but I

ways to get my money back. Wait, they

Eddie asked, “They?”

knew what ‘they’ meant.

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

handed the green

water from

caught it and quickly opened the cap, gulping do

it, he

the water.

tightened the bottle cap, turning to Eileen and asked, “So, you four made a team,

Eileen replied, “Yeah.”