" She will,” he said through clenched teeth. “She will bring you to your knees with pain the likes of which you cannot imagine. She will torture you with possibilities and collar you with threats. You will be her lapdog of your own volition. And by the time she is done with you, there will be nothing left of this fearsome being standing before me. "

― Amber Lynn Natusch , Into the Storm (Force of Nature #2)