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,

was the first to get dressed

be dropped

thought, “was one of them.”

are you alone?” Eddie asked.

but she was still a girl. In

they had met, he’d heard some

asking, “Was your teammate

him, casually replied,

hesitated before suggesting, “If it’s hard for

“What do

a woman to the team would slow them down

Eileen, “Come

moment before leaping down

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

/we push on.”

they were ready to move on.

stayed put, “You are not getting

can’t reach that

glanced at the height of the tree, “It’s

wrists and started climbing

don’t!” Eddie

also said, “It’s too

finish

he watched as the athletic girl slithered up the tree like a snake, already reaching the

and Eddie were stunned.

the tree, a green ribbon

her hands, read the words on the ribbon, then looked

Eileen frowned, “What?”

full of excitement, couldn’t hide

she stared at Lucas for a moment before

his lips, which were already

hundred bucks for a bottle of

Eileen’s climbing skills, was stunned by her offer, “You

asking if

I don’t have the money now, but I promise

I have ways to get my money back. Wait, they should be

Eddie asked, “They?”

Eddie knew what

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

casually handed the green ribbon to

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

and quickly opened the

drinking half of it, he handed the bottle to

the water.

carefully sipped only a third of the water, then tightened the bottle cap, turning to Eileen and asked, “So, you four made

Eileen replied, “Yeah.”