sinking ships - succession

chapter five

       Months passed.

      The holidays were long over and her family was a bit in shambles. Kendall had attempted to push their father out with a vote of no confidence. It had failed and half the board of Waystar had been fired. Now no one had even seen Kendall in the past few months.

           With all that happened, Logan and her family wasn't seen favorably by the public. She wasn't included in that narrative. Most of the public forgot she was even a Roy until there'd be an outing she had with her father and then they'd remember she got all her business acumen from her father. It became positive media for Logan since people usually praised the way she did business and so they praised Logan for teaching her everything.

         Logan needed that positive spin currently. Stewy had advised him to fix the narrative. His specific advice was to get Rose involved.

             Logan knew that Rose wouldn't get involved in the company which would have the biggest positive effect so he thought of something else. It was why Logan sent out an email to his children that there would be family therapy. It was to occur at the ranch Connor owned, Austerlitz.

             Rose was ever so curious and she wasn't going to deny the invitation. So, of course, she showed up to the ranch. She must have arrived late because most of her family was already inside.

             She walked down the hallway after walking through the entrance. She saw Shiv sitting at the corner of the hallway with her back to her. She could see Shiv was on her phone and as she got closer she saw her sister was texting Nate.

               "Nate, huh?" she questioned as she stopped beside her sister who had startled a bit and locked her phone. "I thought you were over him."

           "I am," Shiv defended. "This is for work."

          "Right. And does Tom know?" Rose asked, knowing she would hit a nerve.

       "Why don't you worry about your own fucking relationship, Rose?" Shiv replied quietly in a hostile tone.

         Rose smirked a bit that she had gotten under her skin. Then their father noticed her presence, "Rosebud. Good, you're here. Why don't we take a couple photos together outside?"

         "Photos?" she questioned as her father ushered her outside.

         "Just a little press," Logan replied. "You know how it is."

          "Of course," she nodded and followed him outside.

          She didn't mind all the photos. She was used to people always snapping photos of her. And if these helped her dad then she thought it was a good thing.

         Shiv muttered bitterly to Roman as they left, "So is this going to be family therapy or Rose and Dad bonding time?"

               "It's always been about Rose since she was nine. Why is this a surprise to you?"

            Shiv rolled her eyes.

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The next day in the morning they actually did family therapy. She sat on the couch between Logan and Connor while Shiv and Roman sat across from them on the other couch. The therapist was in a chair at the head of the room.

     Both she and Logan were already on their phones. She was reviewing her spring fashion collection that was about to be released.

        "Can we put aside the phones?" the therapist, Alon, asked.