The monitor no longer made its familiar sounds.
No rises, no falls… only a straight, cold, final line.
“It’s over…” muttered one of the doctors, removing his gloves with weary hands.
In a private room at Monterrey’s priciest hospital, the silence felt heavier than air. Eight top specialists had done everything possible… yet the baby of the city’s most powerful businessman lay there, still, tiny, as if life had quietly slipped away.
Don Ernesto Salazar, a man of millions, owner of countless companies, used to controlling everything… fell to his knees.
“No… it can’t be…” his wife whispered, voice breaking.
Beside him, Camila screamed, inconsolable, wrapping her arms around the empty space, as if she could hold her son back to life.
But while the world crumbled above…
below, on the scorching street, someone wandered unaware of it all.
A child.
