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Bennett blinked.“She got Leo drunk?”

“She did.She’s about the only one who can.”

“Leo is a difficult drunk?”Bennett asked.

“Leo is a chatty drunk,” Sawyer said.“And nostalgic.He’ll go on and on about old stories.Loudly.Forhours.”Sawyer frowned at him.

Bennett knew chuckling wasnotthe right response, but he had to fight it.

“I guess I’m learning just what a handful she can really be,” he said.

“You think she’s a pain in the ass when she’s just her usual, smart-mouthed self?”Josh asked.“She is theworstpissed-off female in the family.”

“You’ve been back from Savannah for four days,” Owen said.“Four days.We’redyinghere.”

“I haven’t had good grits, gumbo, or catfish since you fucked up,” Josh told him.

Bennett had initially thought it was justhisfood Kennedy was ruining.Leo had quickly informed him otherwise.She was spending more time in the kitchen with Ellie and Cora for the specific purpose of making her family’s food terrible and then claiming that she was too emotionally distraught to focus on the cooking.Because of him.That part was unspoken, even when theybeggedher to give up the cooking.

“You can’t make your own food?At all?”Bennett asked them.

They all just blinked at him as if they didn’t understand the question.

“And your mother and grandmother would just let you starve?”he pressed.

“I mean, I can make peanut butter and jelly,” Owen said.“But man, that’s bullshit when there’s perfectly good sausage and catfish right over here.”

“Maddie doesn’t cook?”Bennett asked of Owen’s girlfriend.

Owen leaned in.“When there’s perfectly good sausage and catfishright over here?”

Right.Well, he couldn’t argue with that.Ellie and Cora’s food—especially Cora’s food—was amazing.Almost as good as Kennedy’s.When she wasn’t trying to torture everyone.

“This is all very immature,” Bennett said.

“Oh yeah,” Josh said.“Super petty.She prides herself on that.”

“Youhaveto fix this,” Owen said as Cora set plates of fried shrimp and fries in front of them.

They all eyed it suspiciously.

“You’re keeping her out of the kitchen at leastsomeof the time, aren’t ya, Cora?”Owen asked.

Cora gave him a wide-eyed innocent look.“Who?”

Owen sighed.“Never mind.”

Cora turned away, but not before Bennett caught her smile.So the Landry women also banded together.Another thing that was good to know.

Sawyer pushed his plate away without even sampling anything.“You do have to fix this.That’s why we came to talk to you.Beyond the coffee and breakfasts and lunches, it’s now going beyond the family.Earlier todayIhad to smooth things over with a customer becausesheasked him if he’d ever fucking heard of Google when he asked her a question about the airboats,” Sawyer said.

Oh, boy.Bennett ran a hand over his face.For the past few months everyone, especially Kennedy and Maddie, had been the ones doing damage control with customers whenSawyerhad overreacted and been an ass.Now that Juliet had come to town, Sawyer was getting back to his usual, fun, laid-back self.But it had been rough there for a while.

And nowKennedywas the one pissing customers off?He was sure the guy’s question had been innocent enough.Or maybe he’d been flirting with her.In which case, Bennett was fine with her being bitchy.But…no, he wasn’t.This was their business and she was the main one to interact with everyone.She needed to cool it.At least with the customers.

“So tell me how to fix it,” Bennett said.“I’ve tried apologizing.I’ve tried talking to her and explaining.I’ve tried getting her to talk tome.”

“Talk?”Josh asked.

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