When Promises Learn to Stay [LSFanfic]

They thought the hardest part was loving each other.
They were wrong.

Ten years after choosing a quiet life, Lea Salonga and Rafael De Torre have built something rare-
a home untouched by ambition.

Then the country asks Rafael to run.

Not because he wants to.
Not because it's good timing.
But because he is the nation's last, unfractured hope.

Lea hesitates. Rafael is terrified. And their nine-year-old daughter-already louder than either of them ever were- asks the question no adult dares to answer: "If doing the right thing costs us... does that mean it isn't right?"

This is about love that stays- even when everything else becomes public property.

A story inspired by the song "Hiling" by Mark Carpio (2015).

Hiling Series Book 2, an original concept fanfiction from the Spectacular x Hey, Gorgeous universe.