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, thought for a moment before replying,

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

to be dropped

“was one of

alone?”

In this rainforest, survival was much harder for girls than boys.

they had met, he’d heard some people had already been eliminated.

tried asking, “Was your

glanced at him, casually replied, “Yeah,

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

to Lucas, “What do you

soldier, knew adding a woman to the team would slow them down but

Eileen, “Come over

before leaping down from the

supplies? Have you

/we push on.”

ready to move on.

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

reach that

at the height of the tree, “It’s

stretched her wrists and started climbing

Eddie called

also said, “It’s

didn’t finish

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

Eddie were

later, Eileen jumped down from the tree,

read the words on the ribbon, then looked up

Eileen frowned, “What?”

excitement, couldn’t hide

a moment before asking, “You guys got anything to

his lips, which were already

Eddie, “One hundred bucks for a bottle of

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

asking if you want it?”

now, but I promise

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

Eddie asked, “They?”

Eddie knew what ‘they’ meant.

with a backpack, Burton with two,

casually handed the green ribbon to Egbert.

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

and quickly opened the cap,

drinking half of it, he handed the bottle to

the water.

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

Eileen replied, “Yeah.”