Page 1 of Crazy Rich Cajuns

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“Good morning, Miss Landry.”

“I’ve been on hold for fifteen freaking minutes,Mr.Baxter.”

Bennett grinned.She’d been on hold for four minutes.He knew because he’d been watching the time on his phone.He always kept her on hold for at least a couple.But he’d known to expect her to be dramatic about it no matter how long it was.Kennedy Landry wasn’t really the patiently-wait-on-hold type of woman.Kennedy Landry was, however, the type of woman that made a man want to take what tiny semblance of control he could find and grab onto it like it was a lifeboat in the midst of a hurricane.

Kennedy Landry was absolutely like a hurricane, and she’d already pulled him under and drowned him in lust and amusement and fascination and…

Shit, he was half in love with her, and if the only way he had to remind her that she didn’talwayshave the upper hand in every single one of their interactions was to make her wait on hold on the phone for a few minutes then yeah, he’d do it.

“Well, I’ve been waiting for the reports from last week since Monday,” he told her.“Seems waiting is something we should both get used to.”It was Thursday.She always made him wait until Friday for the reports she was supposed to send on Tuesday.

In part because that meant he’d call her about those reports on Wednesday and they’d fight-flirt for a few minutes.Something they both enjoyed far more than really made sense.

In part because her sending him the reports was ridiculous.He didn’t really need them—he was just curious—and she knew it.

Kennedy hated being told what to do.But she worked for the Boys of the Bayou, the swamp boat tour and fishing company in Autre, Louisiana, and part of her job was to schedule the tours, deal with the customers, and keep track of the payments and receipts.Another part was to compile reports about the number of tourists—where they were from, ages and other demographics, and how much they brought in through tour tickets but also extra purchases such as T-shirts, stuffed alligators, snacks, and so on.And now, part of her job was to send those reports to Bennett, the only one of the five owners who didn’t live in Autre and eat most of his meals at her grandmother’s bar across the street from the tour company’s office.

She hated sending the reports, but only because it meant that she was answering to him on some level.She didn’t like that because she didn’t have him wrapped around her little finger like she did every other man she dealt with on a regular basis.

As far as she knew.

Bennett had been very careful not to let on just how tightly wrapped he already was.

“This call could be about an emergency,” she said in a bored voice that indicated: one, it was not an emergency, and two, she was trying really hard to sound bored and not like she was gritting her teeth.

Bennett loved that he rubbed her the wrong way.It only took about ten minutes around Kennedy to figure out that she ran the show with the men in her life.The only daughter and granddaughter in a family of outdoorsy, hardworking, loud-cussing, Louisiana born-and-bred men, Kennedy not only kept up with them on the hardworking and cussing thing, but she got away with murder.Her oldest brother, Sawyer, tried to make her toe the line, but even he was a sap for his baby sister, and it was rare that Kennedy didn’t get her way.

She knew how to handle blue-collar Cajun men, that was for sure.

Bennett wasn’t a blue-collar Cajun man.

Well, he was Cajun, on his mother’s side.But she’d married into money—a lot of money—very much on purpose and had long ago given up things like crawfish sucking and cursing in French.She had married into a white-collar, British-descended family in Savannah, neck-deep in politics and law and class and wealth and snobbery, while Kennedy had been neck-deep in, well, the Louisiana bayou.And everything that went along with that.

Bennett fucking loved the bayou.And everything that went along with that.

Especially the sassy, goth-dressing, impossible-to-impress Cajun girl who thought that the fact he couldn’t fix a transmission, butcher an alligator, or bait a hook was downright embarrassing.

“If it was an emergency, you would have hung up and called back.Over and over again.Leaving progressively more and more threatening messages about what you were going to do to me when you did finally get a hold of me,” he told her, signing off on the bottom of the letter he’d just finished and moving it to the side.

“I would never do that,” she said.

“No?”When shedidfinally send him reports, it was always in folders that were named things likeI’m Not Your Fucking SecretaryandIf You Ask Me to Get You Coffee It Will Definitely Have Turtle Shit in It.

“If I really needed your attention, I’d start texting.Photos.Naked photos.”

His entire body reacted to that.He cleared his throat.“I would definitely—”

“Of my grandfather.”

Bennett paused.Then groaned.He knew her grandfather.Leo Landry was a great guy.Funny, down-to-earth, honest, loyal.And someone that Bennett absolutely did not ever want to see naked.Ever.

“You’re an evil woman.”

“Remember that.”

He grinned, glad that they weren’t Skyping.She amused him.And turned him on.But having her know that for certain was probably not a good idea.Though the naked photo thing wouldn’t leave his mind completely.

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