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?”

handsome man, thought for a moment

the first to get dressed and leave, then the other two male guests came out.

be dropped

“was one of them.”

are you alone?”

In this rainforest, survival was much harder for

had met,

“Was your

glanced at him, casually replied, “Yeah, he

before suggesting, “If it’s hard for you alone, why don’t you join

looked to Lucas, “What

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

told Eileen, “Come over here.”

was silent for a moment before leaping

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

/we push on.”

they were ready to

pockets, stayed put, “You are not getting that

bitterly, “We can’t reach that high, that clue is

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

wrists

don’t!” Eddie called

also said, “It’s too dangerous, you…”

finish

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

and Eddie were

down from the tree, a green ribbon clutched

words on the ribbon, then looked up to meet

Eileen frowned, “What?”

hide his awe, “You’re

scoffed, she stared at Lucas for a moment before

lips, which

“One hundred bucks for a bottle of water,

skills, was stunned by her offer,

“I’m just asking if you want it?”

have the money now, but I

I have ways

Eddie asked, “They?”

later, Eddie knew what ‘they’ meant.

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

green

a bottle of creek water from Burton’s backpack

and quickly opened the cap, gulping

he

the water.

bottle cap,

Eileen replied, “Yeah.”