LOOM OF THORNS
outside—the sirens, the shouting, the struggle—was muted by soundproof glass and the clinking of crystal.
Chief Adeyemi leaned back in his armchair, the glowing tip of his cigar the only restless thing about him. Opposite him sat Tony Williams, Ada's father, a man who looked shrewd,with calculating eyes and whose smile never quite reached his eyes, and Vice Chancellor Olayinka, who didn't looked distinctly out of place without his academic robes and airs, but was still just as arrogant.
"The girl is in St. Jude’s," Adeyemi said, exhaling a cloud of gray smoke that swirled around the low-hanging lamp. "It was a pretty big mess in the cells. My son is... emotional. He thinks he can play hero."
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