CHAPTER 4 - SHADOWS IN DAYLIGHT

Cassy returns to Iliga University hoping for an ordinary day, but Melo’s disputed transfer records pull them deeper into a web of hidden authority and unanswered questions. Their uneasy law-school partnership has barely begun when Mayor Francisco Sarmiento’s public forum becomes the target of a coordinated assassination. With an unseen sniper, a concealed operative, and a silent guardian forced into action, Iliga’s carefully ordered world begins to fracture—and the shadows surrounding Cassy and Melo step boldly into daylight.