“Since the moment those dangerous eyes met mine, I dreamed of putting you in your place, just how you’ve always craved,” he said. “Teach you humility, respect, devotion. Make you into your most powerful self, strong enough to fear nothing and no one but me—the only being in this world you will ever have to answer to again. The only will other than your own you will ever be beholden to. The only authority you ever have to recognize other than that of your own heart.”
