Smoke Screen
He sat, fidgeting with the pen, twisting and twirling it around in his long, strong fingers. Raising it up, nibbling on the end. Allowing the pen to be the victim of his rising anger while he sat there stewing, applying heat to his rage, bringing it up from a slow simmer, firing it up to a rolling boil. His anger raged unseen inside him at being forced to wait for her. His waiting for her was a new anger. One that added to various, ever present angers that he trod around, when he strode upon his great chess board. Angers that raised wrinkles and crinkles upon his brows and placed a permanent scowl upon his face.
Anger at the Minister for Slip-ups. Anger at the great game in his head that laughed at him and threatened to run away from him because of another Ministerial mistake being aired to the press. This time, it was a mistake that was not handed to the press by himself, but by someone else. Someone with a more Russian underbelly, hidden away inside their outward, overtly British clothing. Multifaceted. A chameleon. Just like him.
This unknown traitor, who lurked unseen and unknown around Westminster had, so far, eluded him. He had several ideas on who it could be, but no solid proof, as yet. Whoever it was, they blended in with the rest, playing a good game at appearing British to the bones. But he knew that if he poked deeper and flensed the Anglican flesh off them, then an inner core would be revealed that sang a decidedly Soviet national anthem, and did not wish for God to save whichever Royal arse sat on the Throne.