Call Me Queen

Five

"You never should have told them!" Blake yells at mom as we are in Blake's office where Anders is going to go over the last will and testimony of grandpa "he's now dead because of you!"

"Dad was old Blake!" Mom screams at him "he died from stress and I saw it all Blake! Out of Ben, me and you—you were and are the worst!"

Blake slams his hand on the desk "I want you gone, out of this house and out of our lives! You have no place in this family!"

"Gladly but after dad's funeral!" Mom yells "he was my dad too and if you try to ban me or Ben from that event I'll let every news outlet and journalist know what you did and they will see how much of a monster you are!" We are all just watching the screaming match between Blake and mom.

"You do not" Blake warns "know who you are messing with"

"You" mom reminds him "know just how much dirt I have on you that if I go public now or in death by an accidental death of your design, the world will know the truth and the Carringtons will be forever tarnished!"

"Fine" Blake conceded through gritted teeth "keep Ben as far" waving his hand "away from me as possible"

"Your forgetting big brother" mom crossed her arms "that in public we have to be the most loving family especially with dad's death, so united front" Blake throws the glass at mom but she dodged it, it hits the wall shattering. Looking at Cristal "I'd hire a divorce lawyer if I were you, given everything"

"Enough!" Anders yells, we look at him "your father died forty eight hours ago. His funeral is tomorrow, you both need to behave like adults. Now per Mr. Carrington's last will and testament, his instructions for his funeral are as follows: he's to be dressed in a plain black suit from Harrow and Sons Tailors in London and placed in a simple oak casket"

"A man of the people" Fallon shakes her head "till the very end"

"Wait for it" holding my hand up

"White miltonia orchids will fill the sanctuary and after the casket" Anders continues "will be taken to Oakland Cemetery in a hearse drawn by a team of Belgian black horses accompanied by a brass band"

Waving my hand to Anders "there it is"

"Spoke too doing" Fallon corrected herself

"Not like he's here to enjoy it" Blake complains

"It's dad's way of having people remember him as a person besides the company and everything" mom scowls at him "do it Anders"

"Aunt Cersei is right" Steven agrees with mom "everyone deserves a last hurrah, don't they?"

"Fine" he grumbles "Anders? I trust you can handle the arrangements?"

"Not all of them" shaking his head "I'm afraid"

"What?" Dad asks

"He's asked that his grandchildren" looking at the will "perform a song for the congregation, as he so loved in his life" I share a look with my siblings "that his granddaughter Danika give the opening speech because the speech she gave at her parents twenty year wedding anniversary moved him and everyone so much that he wishes the same"

"Okay..." shrugging my shoulders

"And that he be buried with his treasured copy of The Canterbury Tales" Anders adds "that's in his personal library in Savannah"

"You can send someone" Blake waves his hand

"He wanted you, Cersei and Ben to retrieve it" Anders says