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?”

head, staring at the handsome man, thought for a moment before replying, “Hey,

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

were the first to be dropped into the jungle.

“was one of

alone?”

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

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

asking, “Was

at him, casually replied,

for you alone, why don’t you join us?”

to Lucas, “What

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

told Eileen, “Come over

before leaping down from the

hands, asked casually, “You run out of supplies? Have you

/we push on.”

that, they were ready

“You are not getting that clue?”

can’t reach that high, that clue

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

stretched her wrists and started climbing the tree.

Eddie called

said, “It’s

finish his

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

Eddie

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

on the ribbon, then looked

Eileen frowned, “What?”

couldn’t hide his awe, “You’re

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

touched his lips, which were already cracked

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

skills, was stunned by her offer, “You have

if

the money now, but

you tried to break your promise, I have ways to get my money back. Wait, they should be

Eddie asked, “They?”

minutes later, Eddie knew what

a backpack, Burton with two,

green

creek water from Burton’s backpack

and quickly opened the

drinking half of it, he handed the bottle to Lucas.

the water.

sipped only a third of the water, then tightened the bottle cap, turning to Eileen and asked, “So, you four

Eileen replied, “Yeah.”