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 for a moment before replying,

Eileen was the first to get dressed and leave, then the other two male guests came

were the first to be dropped into the

she thought, “was

are you alone?”

Eileen wasn’t well-liked, but she was still a girl. In this rainforest, survival was much harder for girls

thought about the other teams they had met, he’d heard

tried asking, “Was

glanced at him, casually replied,

it’s hard for you alone,

Lucas, “What do you

to the team would slow them

told Eileen, “Come

silent for a moment before leaping down

hands, asked casually, “You run out of supplies? Have you lost your backpack? No worries, we can find water if

/we push on.”

ready

put, “You are not getting that

“We can’t reach that high, that

at the height of the

that, she stretched her wrists and

Eddie called out.

“It’s too dangerous,

didn’t finish his sentence!

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

Eddie

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

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

Eileen frowned, “What?”

excitement, couldn’t hide his awe, “You’re so nimble.”

scoffed, she stared at Lucas for a moment before asking, “You guys got anything to

subconsciously touched his lips, which were

hundred bucks for a bottle of

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

just asking if you want

yes, I don’t have the money now, but I promise I’ll pay you

into crescents, “If you tried to break your promise, I have ways to get

Eddie asked, “They?”

Eddie knew what

Burton with two,

green

bottle of creek water from

caught it and quickly opened the cap, gulping

of it, he handed

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.”