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?”

her head, staring at the handsome man,

the show, Eileen was the first to get dressed and leave, then the

the first to be dropped into the

“was one of them.”

you alone?” Eddie asked.

In this rainforest, survival was much harder

they had met, he’d heard some people

asking, “Was your teammate

glanced at him, casually replied,

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

“What do you

being a soldier, knew adding a woman to the team would slow

told Eileen, “Come

moment before leaping down from the tree and

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

/we push on.”

ready to

in pockets, stayed put, “You are not getting that

reach that high, that clue is a

the height of the tree, “It’s not

that, she stretched her wrists

Eddie called out.

“It’s too dangerous, you…”

finish his sentence!

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

Eddie were stunned.

later, Eileen jumped down from the tree, a green

dusted off her hands, read the words on the ribbon, then looked up

Eileen frowned, “What?”

couldn’t hide his awe, “You’re

moment

lips, which

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

still in awe of Eileen’s climbing skills, was stunned by her offer, “You have

if

yes, I don’t have the money now, but

to break your promise, I have ways

Eddie asked, “They?”

minutes later, Eddie knew what

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

casually handed the green ribbon to Egbert.

creek water from

and quickly opened

half of it, he

the water.

carefully sipped only a third of the water, then tightened the bottle cap, turning to Eileen

Eileen replied, “Yeah.”