You're wrong.

[It's actually true. He really doesn't think he can make Elena do anything she doesn't want to do.]

I know you could snap my neck quicker than I could blink, and I'm pretty sure you know that if you did there's a line of people who'd do their best to kill you right back. And then we'd both come back having gained absolutely nothing. So no, I don't think I can control you at all. But it won't help you to control me, either.

I also don't really want to control you, at least not right now.