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Sugar and Smoke Rings by mariee_ward for Wadjilicious
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
16 May 2026
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Summary
The problem with hating someone for eight years is you have to keep choosing it. Ilya Rozanov has been choosing to hate Shane Hollander since they were twenty—since a certain month in Switzerland that should have been about perfecting pastry but became five weeks of golden-hour walks, Shane’s laugh echoing off the mountains, and nights in a narrow bed Ilya has spent eight years pretending to forget. But he remembers everything.
Now they're rivals in the same industry, their names always paired together like they're still competing for something neither of them can name. Ilya owns a bakery in Montreal. Shane is Canada’s golden boy, all cookbooks and television smiles.
And when Shane’s book tour brings him to town, and a dinner party forces them into the same room for the first time in eight years, Ilya realizes: the hatred looks less like anger and more like the only thing he’s ever wanted, the one thing he’s never let himself have.
Or, what if Heated Rivalry were about baking?