Two minutes of the most manipulative dark fiction you’ll ever read.
Chapter Thirteen of SEETHINGS III delivers a feast of manipulation, shifting alliances, and psychological theatre—an entire chapter built on smiles, charm, and concealed blades.
The chapter opens at another Snow dinner, where Felicity dazzles her guests with stories, beauty, effortless charisma, and a peach-coloured summer dress that captures every eye. Sam, now convinced she is infertile thanks to Felicity’s earlier deception, idolises the doctor with religious devotion. The Snow household becomes her sanctuary; Felicity becomes everything Sam wishes she could be: elegant, adored, powerful, and free.
Mitchell sees the danger. Sam’s blind adoration isn’t just humiliating—it’s destabilising his control. Meanwhile, Tony and Sophie are equally enchanted, unaware they are being drawn deeper into Felicity and Hayden’s carefully curated world.
What follows is a masterclass in social manipulation. Felicity tells a dramatic storm story from her past, the group erupts in laughter, and trust solidifies. Then, with a theatrical curtsy, Felicity leads Mitchell and Tony onto Mon Homme—but this time the seduction isn’t for Mitchell. Tony becomes the chosen one. Felicity orchestrates the encounter, shifts her attention, humiliates Mitchell, and uses sex as a strategic tool to realign power.
Mitchell retaliates. In a ruthless, chilling scene, he forces Felicity to keep Tony’s charm bracelet on her wrist—weaponising her own seduction games against her. Their private confrontation reveals two predators battling for dominance while maintaining their flawless social masks upstairs.
Later, in a quieter moment, Tony and Mitchell negotiate something far darker: an exchange of sexual favours for access to a vulnerable fourteen-year-old girl. Mitchell’s monstrous nature resurfaces, and Tony’s moral hypocrisy is laid bare.
The chapter ends with Sam proudly displaying her teddy bear “Grace,” decorated with SIM-card charms—each one a hidden trophy from Mitchell’s victims.
If you want a psychological thriller where every smile hides danger and every character carries a secret worth killing for, SEETHINGS III will grip you from the first page. Available now at SMASHWORDS.COM.
–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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