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Example of a Rivals-to-Lovers Confession
The confession in a rivals-to-lovers story works because it costs something. Admitting attraction to someone you've spent months competing with feels like losing — and these characters hate losing. This excerpt captures that collision.
"Why do you do this?" she demanded. Rain was running down both of them. The parking lot was empty. The fundraiser gala was still going on inside, but neither of them cared anymore. "Do what?" "Look at me like that when you think I'm not paying attention. And then spend the entire meeting undermining every idea I have." He ran a hand through his wet hair. "Because your ideas are usually wrong." "My ideas got this company its biggest client." "And I got the second biggest." "Is that what this is? A scoreboard?" He laughed. It was the bitter kind. "I wish it was a scoreboard. A scoreboard I could handle." She stared at him. Water dripping from her chin. Mascara running. Expensive dress ruined. She looked beautiful and furious and he was so tired of not saying it. "Then what is it?" she asked. The words came out like they'd been waiting a long time. "It's that I can't be in a room with you without wanting to be closer. And I don't know how to compete with someone I can't stop thinking about. So I pick fights. Because fighting is the only version of your attention I know how to get." The rain kept falling. She didn't say anything for a long time. "You're an idiot," she said finally. "I know." She grabbed the front of his shirt and kissed him in the rain, and it tasted like mascara and champagne and four years of pretending.
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