The Lie They Lived
When are you going to leave your wife?
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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