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.

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Chapter Twelve of SEETHINGS III is a masterclass in duality—Mitchell’s serene domestic mask versus the monstrous truth beneath it. The morning after he murders Sandra, news of her body being found plays quietly on television. Mitchell, unfazed, butters his toast with Vegemite while his wife, Sam, reads the paper only metres away. The police have already taken Sandra’s estranged husband in for questioning, and Mitchell knows he’ll quickly be cleared. The evidence will never lead back to him.

Sam suggests a peaceful day at the beach, blissfully unaware she’s spending the morning with a killer. Their marital dynamic resurfaces—Sam’s defensiveness about sex, Mitchell’s smooth deflection—but he’s unusually relaxed. Sandra’s death has given him a twisted sense of satisfaction.

What follows is one of the most unsettling sequences in the book: Sam, for the first time in their marriage, suggests visiting the marina, drinking wine, reminiscing, even stepping aboard their yacht. Mitchell plays the doting husband, knowing every moment brings him closer to fulfilling a darker plan.

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Chapter Eleven of SEETHINGS III is the novel’s most explosive turning point—where seduction, violence, delusion, and moral collapse reach a horrifying crescendo.

After weeks of surveillance and psychological grooming, Mitchell finally lures Sandra into a face-to-face date at the Moreton Bay Boat Club. On the surface, it looks innocent: dinner, flirting, and a theatrically glamorous red dress. But beneath it all, Mitchell is studying her every move—her body language, her phone use, her desire to be seen, and her craving for male validation. Sandra is playful, sensual, and deeply wounded from past relationships—and Mitchell sees every vulnerability as an opening.

The date moves from the restaurant to a moonlit cliff-top lookout, then down to a secluded beach where the storm-swelled night becomes electric. What begins as consensual intimacy shifts—slowly, then violently—into something far more sinister. As a lightning storm erupts overhead, Mitchell’s Beast takes full control. His sexual aggression merges with ritualistic precision, escalating until Sandra can no longer breathe or fight back.

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