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

the show, Eileen was the first to get

first to be

thought, “was one of

are you alone?”

In this rainforest, survival was much harder

the other teams they had met, he’d heard some people

“Was your teammate eliminated?”

glanced at him, casually

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

“What do you

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

“Come

for a moment before leaping down from the tree and walking over.

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

/we push on.”

they were ready to

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

chuckled bitterly, “We can’t reach that high, that

of the tree, “It’s not

she stretched her wrists and

Eddie

also said, “It’s too

didn’t finish his

the athletic girl slithered up the tree like

Eddie were

minutes later, Eileen jumped down from the tree, a

dusted off her hands, read the words on the ribbon, then looked up to meet two pairs of wide, shocked eyes.

Eileen frowned, “What?”

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

at Lucas for a moment before asking,

his lips, which were

bucks for a

of Eileen’s climbing skills, was stunned by her

just asking if you want

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

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

Eddie asked, “They?”

Eddie knew

Burton with two, and empty-handed

the green ribbon

from Burton’s backpack and tossed it to Eddie.

it and quickly opened the cap, gulping do

he handed the bottle

the water.

cap, turning to Eileen and asked,

Eileen replied, “Yeah.”