" I was not cattle. I was not a prize dog. I was his wife, and if that meant to him that he could use me as he liked, to me it meant that I was his equal and deserved to be treated as such. But I could wait until we were in private to tell him that. I could wait until it was just the two of us. And then I would show him how to treat his wife. "

― Sarah K.L. Wilson , Fly with the Arrow (Bluebeard's Secret, #1)