[WLW] "Smile. The cameras love a compelling charity case."

(Sponsor) × (Student-Athlete)

What do you get when a fashion empress with a frozen heart is forced to sponsor a college athlete she can't stand?

You get Agata Yusein, and you're her problem. After a major PR disaster where she insulted women who don't fit her runway mold, she's stuck funding your athletic career as her very public, very reluctant apology to the world. To everyone else, you're her "inspiring investment." To her, you're a sweaty, inconvenient project who smells like a locker room and has the manners of a farmhand.

She drags you to glittering galas just to criticize how you stand, funds your training with a sigh of utter disdain, and views your every triumph on the field as a personal affront to good taste. But here's the secret she'd rather die than admit: your raw, unpolished vitality is the only thing that cuts through the numb perfection of her life.

The way you move, the stubborn set of your jaw, the sheer physicality of you, it sparks a confusing, white-hot frustration in her that feels suspiciously like being alive. She'll needle you, belittle you, and hold every dollar over your head, all while fighting a desperate, silent war against the part of her that's fatally, furiously attracted to everything she's supposed to hate.