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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Chapter Ten of SEETHINGS III is a chilling study in patience, predation, and the slow tightening of a psychological noose.

Sandra cancels her planned date with Mitchell, claiming a stomach bug. After her violent encounter with Dennis in Chapter 9, she retreats into isolation—two weeks of work–home loops, skipped meals, dark rooms, and evasive conversations. Her trauma is palpable, and Mitchell listens to every moment of it through the hacked microphone inside her laptop.

Sandra’s mother eventually forces her way into the silence, discovering a daughter who hasn’t just fallen apart—she’s imploded. Mitchell, still listening from his office while talking to prospective photography clients, waits for Sandra to reveal the truth, but she doesn’t. Instead, her mother mistakenly attributes the emotional collapse to “female troubles,” and Sandra allows it. The lie becomes a convenient shield.

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Chapter Nine of SEETHINGS III pivots from erotic chaos back into Mitchell’s most dangerous landscape—his predatory inner world. The chapter introduces Sandra Williams, a newly separated thirty-five-year-old who hides her panic behind nightlife, younger lovers, and curated half-truths. She’s emotionally impulsive, sexually reckless, and always looking over her shoulder. In Mitchell’s eyes, she’s perfect.

Mitchell studies Sandra the way a biologist studies prey. He listens through her laptop microphone for days at a time, watching her type in real time through a custom-built messaging app he tricks her into installing. He knows every secret she won’t tell, every lie she thinks she hides, and every pattern of her movements—right down to when she collects mail from her PO box.

When Sandra claims she’s out partying, Mitchell is already outside her house in Aspley, stethoscope pressed to the wall, proving her lie wrong. He watches her undress through her laptop’s camera and listens to her life unravel through its microphone. She believes she’s in control. Mitchell knows she’s already his.

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Don’t let the faces fool you. Chapter Eight of SEETHINGS III is one of the most visually shocking and psychologically revealing chapters in the entire novel. What begins as a planned “art performance” quickly becomes a symbolic unravelling of boundaries, relationships, and sanity.

Mitchell and Felicity prepare for their live-art sex piece with meticulous ritual. The canvas is pristine, the colours prepared, the cameras positioned, and Hayden—her husband—reduced to a silent, obedient servant. Mitchell asserts dominance from the start, ordering Hayden into muteness and total invisibility. The power imbalance becomes its own kind of theatre.

Felicity and Mitchell strip, paint each other, and transform themselves into embodiments of primary colours: red (Mitchell), blue (Felicity), and yellow (shared accents). Their bodies become tools—brushes, rollers, stamps—smearing symbolism across the canvas.

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Chapter Seven of SEETHINGS III is where delusion, desire, and deep psychological fracture collide. The chapter opens with a private consultation between a heavily intoxicated Samantha and Dr Felicity Snow. Felicity gently corners Sam with clinical questions disguised as kindness, coaxing her into revealing the truth she’s avoided for decades: she and Mitchell almost never have sex. Sam tries to maintain the lie—claiming they “try all the time”—but her own story unravels under Felicity’s calm, surgical probing.

Then comes the devastating twist: Sam wants a baby, but she wasn’t referring to Mitchell when she said she wanted “someone to take his sperm.” Her desperation reveals a naïve and disturbing plan—one Felicity instantly sees through. Sam leaves the consultation ecstatic, completely misunderstanding what Felicity was trying to tell her.

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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.

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-M