title: The Rules of Engagement
author:  Ally Blake 
description: Ally is a hopeless romantic. She was born into a family of romance reading women and remembers bag loads of books being passed on at family gatherings from her mother, her cousins, her aunt and even her grandmother. Now as a grown up she gets to sit at the laptop, with a title, a couple of beautiful characters in mind and wait for the fairies to take flight. Constant coffee and bowls full of M&amp;Ms make her job that much more pleasurable! Come visit her at www.allyblake.com
zlib_text: “I want you to show me how you feel about me. If you think I’m wrong about
  something, tell me why. Tell me everything you’re thinking. I’m giving you my
  permission to do anything you want. Right now.”
  
  
  It was the truth. If he was angry and wanted to walk away, I wanted him to. If
  this was too much, and if it proved he couldn’t handle Blake or the others
  doing the same, and this was over, I wanted to end it as quickly as possible,
  to allow them to heal or move on.
  
  
  But I trembled, fearing his answer. My own heart was breaking, seeing him like
  this. I didn’t hate what I’d done with Blake, but it was the true extent of
  how nonexclusive I needed to be right now. I couldn’t hide my feelings from
  them and still figure out _how_ to feel about them, either. If I was going to
  figure this out, I needed to be free to be myself and do anything with them
  without boundaries.
  
  
  If that wasn’t going to happen, with one or all of them, then they needed to
  bow out. I would have to be okay with that.
  
  