~5 "Nous sommes les uns des autres." We are each other's Stars~ 
 The interesting thing about reading "Tears of Tess" was that I loved how much of a fighter she was. Never letting herself become the victim in the horrid situation she finds herself. Being ripped apart from the life she knows while vacationing with her boyfriend in Mexico. Tess was struggling with herself before being kidnapped. Tess found herself wondering about her sexual desires that had blossomed throughout her young adult life. The life she had with her boyfriend, Brax was lacking the chemistry she would never get while being intimate with him. But when she was pushing for more and found that Brax was less than pleased she tried so hard to put it all behind her, letting the shame and mortification of the situation questioning her mind. 
 An old enemy: rejection, ruled my life. I didn't just want the intimacy, I needed it. I needed to feel his hands on me, his body in mine. It was craving that never left me in peace. 
 Through the struggle of being taken she endures so much in such a short time never letting her fire nullify, her time comes when she is shipped off to an unknown territory and lands at the steps of Q. Mercer. 
 He was smooth water- effortless in refinement but just like still water, dangerous if you couldn't swim. Deadly rips and currents lurked deep below the surface. 
 Now Q, there was somthing that I couldn't identify in him. His persona was so closed off, but all over the place. Showing the true evil in him while fighting to rein in the beast within him, he also struggled with so many demons. His differences with Tess "Esclave" were such a blossoming transition. He sensed things within Tess, a darkness in her that called to him, but was too dangerous to for him to be pulled in. Afraid of that his secrets would be revealed. 
 Q was demanding in a way for Tess to reveal the true fight she was facing, the fear in her of being something she didn't understand the darkness inside herself she was afraid to acknowledge and the feelings that were provoked by Q. 
 Q gave me something I needed since I'd started dreaming of sinful things, started looking at images online of men fucking women with a fine edge of violence. 
 Their relationship between both Q and Tess challenge each other so fiercely. 
 "You think you're so fierce with your threats. My job isn't to wrap you in shackles, esclave. My job is to unshackle you. And as much as you deny it, I'm doing a damn fine job." 
 "I fly when I'm with you." 
 "Je suis a toi." I am yours. 
 Nous sommes les uns des autres." We are each other. 
 But through the end I fell in love with not only the strength of Tess and the growth of who she became, but the inner battle of Q. What he gave up and returned to hiding himself. He might have seemed selfish for what he did, but I understood and my heart broke even more for him. 
 This woman who turned my world upside down. This woman... the key to my undoing. 
 The story is both heartbreaking and refreshing. It was nothing to what I expected and have truly fallen for the talent that Ms. Winters had graced us with. 
 I usually love to match songs to the story I read and this one was the anthem to Q and Tess: 
 Kings Of Leon - Beautiful War 
 Bite your tongue 
 Don't make a scene dear 
 Everybody's been here 
 At least once before 
 I've heard the sound 
 The tip of your tongue 
 The top of your lungs 
 Is doing my head in 
 When I hold 
 The warmth of your body 
 There is nobody 
 That I'd rather hold 
 Shattered and cold 
 The tip of your tongue 
 The top of your lungs 
 Is making me crazy 
 I say love 
 Don't mean nothing 
 Left them something 
 Worth fighting for 
 It's a beautiful war