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?”

at the handsome man,

of the show, Eileen was the first to get dressed

were the first to be dropped into

“was one of

you alone?”

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

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

“Was your teammate eliminated?”

at him, casually replied, “Yeah, he was.”

hesitated before suggesting, “If it’s hard for you

“What do you think?”

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

“Come

leaping down from the tree and

casually, “You run out of supplies? Have you lost your backpack? No worries, we can

/we push on.”

that, they were ready

“You are

back, chuckled bitterly, “We can’t reach that high, that clue is

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

that, she stretched her wrists and

Eddie called

also said, “It’s too dangerous,

didn’t finish his

tree

and Eddie were stunned.

the tree, a

then looked up to meet two pairs of wide, shocked eyes.

Eileen frowned, “What?”

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

stared at Lucas for a moment

lips, which were

to Eddie, “One hundred bucks

Eileen’s climbing skills, was stunned

if you want it?”

I don’t have the money now, but I

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

Eddie asked, “They?”

minutes later, Eddie knew what ‘they’ meant.

two, and empty-handed

casually handed the green ribbon

she took a bottle of creek water from Burton’s

caught it and quickly opened the cap,

half of it, he handed the bottle to Lucas.

the water.

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

Eileen replied, “Yeah.”