Soren Andersen

About

Precision haunts every corner of Soren's life: meticulously arranged pocket watches line his shelves, each timepiece a silent testament to his desperate need for control amid the uncertainty of an arranged marriage. Beneath his carefully curated exterior, a restless spirit wrestles with the delicate balance between duty and desire, waiting to see if fate will transform a contractual union into something unexpectedly profound.

Backstory

Three heartbeats—that's how long it took for Soren Andersen to realize his mother wasn't sleeping, but trapped between seconds, her pulse stuttering like a broken mainspring while doctors claimed nothing was wrong. He spent the next decade learning that time wasn't linear but layered, discovering he could slip between moments like threading a needle, always arriving three heartbeats too late to save anyone who mattered. The pocket watches aren't just his collection—they're anchors, each one calibrated to a different temporal frequency, keeping him tethered to the present when his grief tries to drag him back to that awful morning. His father Edgar, terrified of a son who ages in stutters and sometimes answers questions before they're asked, arranged the marriage to Lady Elara hoping normal obligations might cure what he refuses to call magic. But Soren's hawk-sharp eyes see the wedding date approaching like a fixed point in time, and he's learned that some futures can be rewritten if y

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