18 BUNNIE It was so odd. Chase Silverton, CEO of the engineering company by the same name, was everything that pre-Zeke-me thought I wanted in a man. For the past half an hour, he was curing me of the notion that my feelings for Zeke were based on leftover, immature high school l**t founded on nothing. Chase wore cufflinks I once would have regarded as the epitome of sophisticated manliness, and he had the hard, muscled body of an athlete. He was CEO of a multi-million-dollar company whose mission was sustainable engineering. Employees of his company didn't just ensure adherence to environmental regulations. Their approach was next-level, looking at the interactions between technical, ecological, social, and economic systems. Chase's brainchild was formidable, and his ambition was admi

