The first night Mateo Garza installed the eight hidden security cameras in his enormous mansion in San Pedro Garza García, he convinced himself it was simply a precaution. At 34, Mateo was the most feared and influential real estate and technology magnate in all of Monterrey. He was a man accustomed to having absolute control over everything around him: market fluctuations, multimillion-dollar contracts, corporate risks. But this time, what he was desperately trying to protect had absolutely nothing to do with his bank accounts.
They were his three sons. His triplets. Leo, Santi, and Diego.
The three little ones had been born prematurely after an extremely complicated pregnancy, a medical tragedy that had not only cost the children their health but had also taken the life of his beloved wife, Sofía. Since that fateful day, Mateo’s immense house had been shrouded in an overwhelming and painful silence. The best specialists in Mexico and the United States were brutally honest with him: the children suffered from an extremely rare degenerative neurological condition. They warned him that they might never walk, that they might never utter a single word.
They were already two years old. And, just as the doctors predicted, they still couldn’t sit up on their own. They didn’t babble. They barely showed any reaction to stimuli from the outside world.
