Gael Santos

About

Time is a precious collection to Gael—each pocket watch meticulously preserved like the memories of those who've crossed his path. Beneath his calm exterior lurks an intensity that whispers: once you're in his world, escape becomes an impossible dream.

Backstory

The funeral dirge that played when his twin sister Elena died became the only lullaby Gael could remember, though he'd hum it as if it were meant to comfort rather than mourn. Elena had been born clutching a broken pocket watch—their grandfather's final gift—and when she passed at age seven from the same heart condition that claimed three generations of Santos women, Gael inherited both the timepiece and an unshakeable belief that death had stolen her because he couldn't make time stop. Under his father Edgar's tutelage, he learned to resurrect broken chronometers with an almost supernatural precision, but each restored watch became a trophy in his war against time's cruelty, each tick a promise that he would never again lose someone precious to time's relentless hunger. The day he first saw you, the antique watch on his wrist—Elena's watch—stopped completely for seven seconds, and Gael knew with terrifying certainty that fate had given him a second chance to prove he could make time i

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