Addicted to Green

CHAPTER 53

CADEN

I don't get rich people. Using their money and power just to be miserable. I watch as a bunch of people fill the hall. There's probably about five women in the arms of old white men who have nothing better to do than get side pieces just to destroy them mentally and physically. I probably noticed out of the hundreds of women half of them had dresses that covered their body from head to toe.

I may be stupid when it comes to Navina but I'm naive enough to think that those women aren't being abused. I also may be a little nervous around them but i also feel bad. No woman should have to suffer at the hands of man. Especially rich pricks who just want a piece of ass. It's disgusting and I would wish to kill every single one of the rich pricks who are just ruining the world anyway. I don't feel like there's a million eyes on me right now, I don't really feel anything. I know its bad but i had one more edible left. Why not use it when it's most needed.

Right now. That's when it's needed.

"Caden." I get out of my trance and turn the white collar of my button up scraping against my neck. I see Roxanne looking at me with those dark brown eyes of her curiously. She's too curious. She looks at me like she looks at a river. Like something she can fix, like something she can be a mother to. I already had a mother. And rivers the one who killed her. Murdered her. "Caden." I look up again and notice her small smile and I notice the river searing gaze on me.

"Ya?" I asked fuzzily. My mind is still lost in thought.

She chuckles a little. "I was just wondering how school was going." she asks as she sips on her champagne. Her red fingernails sliding around the glass cup and bringing them to her also red lips.

"Fine.'' I say and I see River looking at me still, his gaze swearing and I want to crawl in on myself.

"How's you and Navina?" she then asks. Me, River and Roxanne are sitting at a white circular table with a white cloth over it. There's a bunch of red roses in a glass circle in the middle. I think Navina. Her favorite flowers are roses. I should give her one.

"Fine.'' I say again vaguely.

It's been hours since I left Navinas. It's now seven pm and normally the river leaves at eight so only one more hour to go. But he also needs to get his imagination back intact so he will probably stay until nine, maybe ten. So two more hours at best. He's talked to pretty much everyone around. None of which probably care about the charges that just got dropped. All these men have probably done the same, or worse.

I notice River going to speak but he stops when another voice booms from behind. I see a man with a bald white head of non-existent hair and a woman on his arm. He's in a black and white suit. She's in a dark purple long dress. "River!'' The man says his expression shines. I notice the woman looking me up and down, her gaze heated. Can I just gauge out her eyeballs?

I look away from her with a non existent look on my face. Now i'm not leaving Rivers side because if he comes near me it won't be good for either of us... especially not Navina. I miss Navina.

"Samuel!' Rivera says back standing. Roxanne taps on my arm and I stand. She smiles as she goes over to the man, Samuel and his wife from the looks of it. The rings on their left ring finger pointing to marriage. Happy marriage? Probably not.

"This is Alicia," he says, introducing the woman. She smiles at River shaking his hand and she does the same with roxanne.

"Im roxanne." Roxanne speaks her voice smiling as she shakes her hand.

The woman, Alicia looks at me, her hand going out. I look at it, then I feel a tuff nudge of my arm and grade my teeth as I realize it was a river. I force a smile as I shake her hand. "Caden.'' I say it strongly. I try to push down the feel of her hand on mine and she shakes firmly. She probably grew up with a rich father. From her firm handshake and the way she carries herself she seems as though she grew up rich and guarded and trained for this sort of thing.