2 mins of the darkest fiction you’ll ever read.
Chapter Four of SEETHINGS III shifts the tension from private marital conflict to a polished, glittering stage—a dinner party designed for psychological warfare. Sam and Mitchell arrive at Felicity and Hayden’s luxurious canal-estate home, already anxious for different reasons: Sam fears social embarrassment, while Mitchell anticipates the hidden agendas simmering beneath the night’s surface.
From the moment the front gate unlocks, the chapter becomes a study in contrasts: modesty versus glamour, insecurity versus confidence, repression versus sexual boldness. Sam, feeling plain beside the statuesque Anneke and the impossibly glamorous Dr Felicity Snow, retreats into self-doubt. Mitchell, however, immediately recognises Felicity’s layered provocations—her body, her dress, her confidence, and her silent signals directed at him.
The group tours the lavish home: art, architecture, hidden televisions, sweeping decks, and finally the enormous catamaran Mon Homme—a boat whose name, meaning “My Man,” says everything about Felicity’s unapologetic ownership of desire. Felicity and Hayden’s dynamic is one of practised performance: he cooks, she dazzles, and together they choreograph their guests’ reactions.
Sam tries to fit in, grasping at small talk about recipes and shoes, while Felicity’s attention subtly but deliberately shifts to Mitchell. Their shared knowledge of sailing becomes a private dialogue Sam cannot enter. Each remark from Felicity is a lure, each smile an invitation, and Mitchell—ever the predator—recognises her fluency in this silent language.
When Felicity invites Mitchell aboard her yacht, the tension crystallises. Sam’s seasickness keeps her rooted to land, leaving Mitchell to follow the blonde skipper across the jetty alone. The chapter ends with Felicity guiding him into her catamaran’s cabin, the door closing behind them—an unspoken promise that the night is only beginning.
If you crave fiction woven with psychological tension, seductive power plays, and dark motivations simmering behind every smile, SEETHINGS III delivers relentlessly.
–Michael (Dark fiction. Author of SEETHINGS (the first book), free for a limited time)
Love, lust, and lies collide on land and water. A temptress, a faithful wife, and a photographer haunted by shadows drift into a world of seduction, betrayal, and control.
Marriages unravel, secrets surface, and civility dissolves into primal instinct. Nothing is safe. No one is innocent.
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