Double Deception

She stood staring into space. Roughly wiping away the silent lone tear that had escaped her eye. She had promised herself not to cry - "all in the line of duty"....she had rebuked herself.

Absently reaching out for her half filled cup of black coffee, Rita recalled the conversation that had ensued between her and Robbie. Aaah...Robbie! Rita could never be sure which side he was on; she was sure of one thing - he was a double agent in all this charade...where it benefits him.

"Hey Rita, believe me. I am on your side. I am telling you that they have discovered your guise; so you better watch out. They have managed to break the code. Get out whilst you can," he had adviced emphatically. "Now!"

Putting back the cup which was already barely an inch away from her down-turned lips, Rita wiped another runaway tear. Damn those agents ; thinking they are doing good to expose her! What do they know of her job - her task at hand? That she is a mole herself! There are other agents who already knew of her task in the syndicate. In fact, it was the Godfather himself who had asked her to go into being a mole.

Rita shook her head in disbelief.! A cynical smirk crossed her face momentarily.

Who do these puny agents think they are? Do gooders for the society? It was an action borne out of self conceited interest that made them dig relentlessly to undiscover the code - her code! A snigger escaped her - its no wonder one was rejected by her previous employer; and the other two were whimpering stragglers; trailing pathetically after others! And they were not satisfied. O no! They were not! It should have been them to hit the mark. Who is this Rita, this "mole" to make the hit? To get the credit; to crack into the syndicate. And thats when they actually believed it to spy on, and transgress on her privacy...calling her an impostor. And they had all confided in Robbie. Poor shallow minds - dont they know that Robbie is a double agent and that the mole has Godfather's consent. THE Godfather whom they emulate and go out of their way to please. Dont they realise that there are other agents who actually know that she was a mole in the syndicate? Yet they played along; including Robbie; just to keep the syndicate going.

In the end, the three puny agents only prove to expose their shallowness, and to the length they would go to show themselves as the savior, whence it was actually their selfishness, their greed and their shallowness thinking they could hit what Rita had achieved.

But how sad - in their zeal to expose Rita, they have maliciously subjected her to open exposure without much care about why she became a mole, under Godfather's advice and consent of course. They only saw what they wanted to see - Rita the double crosser, the impostor. They gloated with glee when they had thought they had exposed Rita; but little do they know how malicious they have been in the act - destroying he only means to security and peace of mind, as Godfather had been trying to help her in her line of duty.

She heaved a heavy sigh. Those puny agents will forever remain pathetically losers for as long as they try to devour other agents for puny gains. Rita reached out to the telephone and dialled.

"Godfather, I am out. I cant risk my peace of mind being robbed by these backstabs from others of my kind. Send me back to solitary confinement please."

She could hear the sharp intake of breath from Godfather. She knew he was stunned that within the syndicate, agents could backfire on his own people.

"Alright mole...you're out. We will talk later." The phone went dead.

Rita finally took the sip; oblivious that the coffee had gone very cold...and bitter. It was refreshing and rejuvenating - she welcomes solitary confinement anytime; to deceitful, selfish minds of puny agents who are deluded thinking they are doing the syndicate good.

Finally, that glint of mischief could be seen so briefly in her eyes as she started to smile softly.
"Mission accomplished....I showed them I am still THE MOLE"

How's that for an excerpt of a novel....alhamdulillah..I still have it