Mitchell returns home to a warm light and a well-prepared meal. To outsiders, he and Sam are the perfect couple—courteous, considerate, and quietly content. But under their practised pleasantries lies a cold truth: there is no intimacy, no connection, only cohabitation.
A minor disagreement over friends and family planning ignites old tensions. Sam shuts him down again. Mitchell retreats to the dining room, obedient and hollow. In the silence, the Beast emerges—Mitchell’s darker self—whispering truths he doesn’t want to hear.
The Beast knows Sam holds all the control. It mocks Mitchell’s submission, feeding on frustration, humiliation, and unmet need. Even a forgotten ovulation device on the bathroom vanity becomes a symbol of resentment—a relic from a long-dead argument and a childless future.
Outside that house, Mitchell finds freedom on the sea. But inside, he’s imprisoned by duty, silence, and the lie they’ve both agreed to live.
And then—there’s Natasha.
Young, eager, Nina’s daughter. She awakens something feral. Their affair is electric, brutal, uninhibited. She is everything Sam is not. For a month, Mitchell loses himself in Natasha’s body—until she utters a single sentence that changes everything.
“When are you going to leave your wife?”
Mitchell smiles.
The Beast, watching closely, begins to stir.
[excerpt from SEETHINGS 2 – available for download now!]
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