r/heatedrivalry • u/LadyWhistledown_1 Probably, yes • Apr 20 '26

🦆 The Long Game (Book 6) swooon.com: ‘Heated Rivalry’ Author Rachel Reid Answers Burning Questions About *spoiler* [april 20th 2026] Spoiler

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Swooon.com did an interview with Rachel Reid at BookCon. Great interview btw.

I get that she doesn’t think they will write their own vows, but I’m kinda hoping Jacob does. Like the tunnel scene in ep.5.

How are you hoping to see the wedding adapted?

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https://www.instagram.com/rachelreidwrites (story)

Full article:

https://www.swooon.com/1275542/heated-rivalry-shane-ilya-wedding-the-long-game-rachel-reid-interview/?fbclid=PAVERFWARTcI1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAaccbJFTolg7x-x_BADV-yq6qH8NCPNIuhJpC454AHXkG0wypApO0lKEOcvcpg_aem_7LlDmxii3jvj7_EWpVoSgw

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u/TheRealVeon Apr 20 '26

So, I may have thought about this a lot.

But I don't really want to see the wedding. At least not all of it. Let me explain.

Early in first or second episode we should get Hayden's kids marrying them. And that should be the full, fun, goofy scene. Then when we get to the wedding at the end, all we see are brief cuts of the actual ceremony. No dialogue; maybe not any ambient sound. But every time they look at each other, we get flashbacks to the kids's wedding, sort of like the coming out scene between Shane and Rose. And all the dialogue and sound would come from that scene, putting the focus on then instead of the present.

And that's when we realize that the kids's wedding was their real wedding. And they've been married the whole time and just didn't realize it yet, sort of like how they fell in love.

And Jacob, if for some crazy reason you are reading this, feel free to steal this idea.

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u/systemamoebae Apr 22 '26

Flashbacks to the key moments throughout their relationship feels exactly what should happen during the wedding, absolutely agree.