The Quiet Voltage

She was told to stay small. Teaching, marrying, and having children were "safe", and engineering was "for men" and "too tough for her". But she wanted oil & gas, steel and systems, wires, and control rooms.

Her relatives called her naïve, too soft, and a dreamer who didn't belong. When the rejections piled up, she almost believed them. Almost.

Then came the job. Messy. Brutal. Unforgiving. A workplace where sexism was as common as coffee breaks. She fought, stumbled, learned to sharpen her tongue and armor her spirit.

And right when the chaos threatened to drown her, he appeared. Not a savior, not a fairytale prince.

But a maddeningly attractive, razor-sharp ally whose very brilliance felt like a threat. He was strategic, infuriatingly calm where she burned, always one step ahead. His presence forced her to sharpen her own claws, to outmaneuver, and to rise higher.

They clashed. They competed. They pushed each other to the brink...

Until rivalry blurred into banter, and banter into something neither of them could ignore.

A story of ambition, sabotage, love, and the messy, beautiful alchemy of becoming unstoppable.