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?”

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

was the first to get dressed and leave, then the other two

the first to be dropped into

she thought, “was

are you alone?” Eddie asked.

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

teams they had met, he’d heard some people had

tried asking, “Was your teammate

glanced at him, casually replied, “Yeah, he was.”

hard for you alone, why don’t you

looked to Lucas, “What do you think?”

knew adding a woman to the team would slow them down but still said, “Sure.”

told Eileen, “Come over here.”

moment before leaping down from the tree and walking over.

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

/we push on.”

they were ready to

stayed put, “You are not getting

chuckled bitterly, “We can’t reach that high, that clue is a lost cause.”

glanced at the height of the tree, “It’s not that high.”

her wrists and started

Eddie called

“It’s too

didn’t finish

up the tree like a snake, already reaching the first branch and

and Eddie

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

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

Eileen frowned, “What?”

excitement, couldn’t hide

moment before asking,

subconsciously touched his lips, which were already cracked and

Eddie, “One hundred bucks for a

in awe of Eileen’s climbing skills, was stunned

“I’m just asking if

the money now, but I promise

I have ways to get my money back. Wait, they should be here in three minutes.”

Eddie asked, “They?”

minutes later, Eddie knew

a backpack, Burton with two,

the green ribbon to

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

it and quickly opened the

of it, he handed the bottle to

the water.

tightened the bottle cap, turning

Eileen replied, “Yeah.”