You do not believe in coincidences.
Not anymore. Not after everything money had bought you and everything it had failed to save. Men like you are taught early that the world can be managed if you are disciplined enough, cold enough, and rich enough. Problems become numbers, scandals become settlements, grief becomes something postponed until the market closes.
That is how you survive at the top.
It is not how you survive a child’s voice.
When the little girl walked into Mercado Estrella that storm-heavy night in Guadalajara, you noticed her because she did not belong there. Everyone else moved through the store with the easy entitlement of people who had never had to count coins with wet hands. They wore polished shoes, expensive watches, soft perfume, and faces trained never to linger too long on suffering unless it was displayed inside a charity gala.
But she came in barefoot.
