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“I like Bananas Foster,” she cut in.“But I love crème brûlée.And pecan pie.And hell, a great chocolate chip cookie even more.”

“Seriously?”

“Yeah.”

“I can make chocolate chip cookies.”

She smiled and leaned over, kissing him softly.Then deeper.When she leaned back, she looked into his eyes.“This was all veryostentatiousof you.”

He chuckled.“You know, I start thinking about sleeping with you and then you throw out a word like ostentatious…and the urge gets so much stronger.”

Epilogue

Almost Christmas time…

“I wantedto wait until everyone was here and now that Bennett and Kennedy made it back, this is the perfect time.”

Josh stood on a chair in the middle of Ellie’s and had just shouted for the place to quiet the fuck down.The bar was full tonight, as it always was on a Friday.Kennedy had finished up her meetings early so that they could make it back to Autre for the crawfish boil, but they’d still barely made it on time.She didn’t know what exactly was going on, but Josh had texted her three times and Bennett twice, making sure they’d make it back.It was something big.

“If I hadn’t had to swing by the governor’s office and promise to bring him gumbo in exchange for not arresting you for ignoring his request to wait three days before taking another ship out to Sauveuse Island, we’d have been here in plenty of time,” she said softly to Bennett from behind the first ring of people gathered around Josh.

Bennett pinched her ass in reply.“You would have taken him Cora’s gumbo anyway.Don’t blame me because you always have ‘just one more thing’ to tell him.The poor guy is probably relieved you were spending the weekend down here.”

Kennedy laughed.Charles was quickly becoming one of her best friends.He was the one that had talked her into her next political step.“You might be right.He’s really excited about me running for mayor down here.That will keep me away from Baton Rouge more.”

Josh, Owen and Sawyer thought the idea of her as mayor was hilarious, of course, and were already talking about all of the ways they could blackmail and bribe her.

She couldn’t wait for them to try.

Bennett hugged her against his side with a chuckle and kissed the top of her head.“I’m not saying this is why he’s behind it, but he does like me a lot and I did mention to him that I thought calling you Madam Mayor would be really hot.”

She looked up at him with a sly smile.“Yeah, that would be really hot.We should practice that tonight.”

His eyes darkened.“Oh, Mayor Landry-Baxter, we can definitely do that.”

Landry-Baxter, she liked that.“And you can play being my assistant.And every ten minutes I’ll be asking you for files that you don’t actually need.”

He squeezed her ass again.“Yeah, I’ll put myfilesanyplace you want them.”

She reached around and pinchedhisass.“Keep up that attitude and you might just earn yourself a raise.”

“But,” he added in that slightly condescending tone that always made her want to kiss him until he forgot how to do anything but say,yes, fuck, Kennedy.“I do feel the need to point out that if I’m theassistant, I won’t be using my silk necktie to tie your wrists while bending you over my big mahogany desk.”He gave a little shrug.

Heat arrowed through her.Yeah, the day that Bennett’s desk had been delivered to the office space he’d rented in Autre for his foundation had been a really fun day.

“Your dress code for the job will require a silk necktie every day,” she told him, wondering if they could sneak out and go to his office right now.

“But assistants don’t have offices to put big mahogany desks in.Or big mahogany desks.”

“Huh.Does it work if you’re calling me Madam Mayor but it’syourdesk?”she teased.“Seems like I’m in the position of power.Maybe I should just take that desk for my own.”

He nodded, seeming thoughtful.“I guess you would be in the position of power.Unless…”

She arched a brow.“Unless?”

“I guess unless you’re calling me… I don’t know…Senator.Or something.”

Kennedy pulled back slightly, her eyes went wide.“What?Wait…really?”

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