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?”

man, thought

to get dressed and leave, then the other two male

the first to be dropped into the jungle.

“was one

you alone?” Eddie

was still a girl. In this rainforest, survival was much harder for girls

the other teams they had met, he’d

tried asking, “Was your teammate eliminated?”

at him, casually replied, “Yeah, he

“If it’s hard for you alone, why

looked to Lucas, “What

the team would slow them down but still said,

“Come over here.”

before leaping down from the tree and walking over.

noticed her empty hands, asked casually, “You run out of supplies? Have you lost your backpack?

/we push on.”

ready to move

put, “You are

reach that high, that clue is a lost

glanced at the height of the

stretched her wrists and

don’t!” Eddie called

said, “It’s too dangerous,

finish his

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

Eddie were stunned.

jumped down from the tree, a green ribbon

dusted off her hands, read the words on the ribbon, then looked up to meet two pairs

Eileen frowned, “What?”

hide his awe, “You’re so

moment before

his lips, which were already cracked and bleeding.

bucks for a bottle of water, deal?”

Eileen’s climbing skills, was

just asking if

have the money now, but I promise I’ll

tried to break your promise, I have ways to get my money back.

Eddie asked, “They?”

Eddie knew what ‘they’ meant.

two, and empty-handed Egbert, slowly approached.

handed the green ribbon

she took a bottle of creek water from Burton’s

opened the cap, gulping

drinking half of it, he handed the

the water.

the water, then tightened the bottle cap, turning to Eileen

Eileen replied, “Yeah.”