Chapter Six of SEETHINGS III drops us back into the dinner party—now transformed into a psychological pressure cooker where seduction, secrets, and manipulation simmer under every polite laugh. Felicity and Mitchell return from Mon Homme with their illicit encounter hidden beneath designer fabrics and coded jewellery. Only the men—Hayden and David—notice the signs, and their knowing smiles confirm Mitchell’s uneasy induction into their world.
Sam, oblivious, becomes the evening’s next target. Felicity and Anneke turn their charm on her, topping up her champagne, pushing cocktails into her hands, and coaxing her into saying things she’d never normally dare—like the humiliating “I want to suck a cock-sucking cowboy.” Sam tries to remain polite, navigating peer pressure with trembling grace, but Felicity’s strategy is clear: get Sam drunk enough to talk about pregnancy, IVF, and the truth she avoids.
Meanwhile, Mitchell sits with Hayden and David, gaining a crash course in the couple’s sexual ecosystem. He learns about Felicity’s open marriage, Hayden’s acceptance, and their network of swingers and cuckolds. Their nonchalant attitudes stand in stark contrast to Mitchell’s repressed, crumbling marriage. When Mitchell confesses he once asked Sam about taking a lover—and that she shut it down—the men recoil, explaining how disastrously counter-intuitive that approach was. Mitchell erupts, finally voicing his buried hatred for Sam, and the men realise just how deep his emotional decay runs.
Back inside, the women escalate the drinking. Sam, pressured and cornered, finally downs the cocktail she desperately doesn’t want. Felicity watches her closely—predatory, calculating—because the moment Sam is pliable enough, Felicity intends to pry open the truth about her marriage and her reproductive plans.
If you want the unabridged psychological thriller that peels back human behaviour with surgical precision—sex, secrets, manipulation, and moral collapse—SEETHINGS III is unmissable.
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–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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