Fatal Romance: A True Story of Obsession and Murder by Lisa Pulitzer

Author:Lisa Pulitzer [Pulitzer, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2001-07-14T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

The Akers residence seemed to get even messier with the arrival of Zeb and Isabelle. And Jeremy’s at-home business added to the jumble. At first, he seemed to have his new work situation under control, but it slowly became apparent that he needed managerial help.

Who better than Nancy? But Nancy was saddled with the demands of her children and the deadlines of her budding writing career. Nevertheless, she complied when Jeremy asked her to type letters, address envelopes, and send faxes. The constant interruptions were maddening, and Nancy soon found herself wishing that her husband would be called away on a case.

Even more annoying was the way that Jeremy handled his billing. With no formal system in place, Nancy watched as he worked diligently on a project, racking up hundreds of billable hours. But when it came time to submit the itemized invoice, he procrastinated until their bank account dipped dangerously into the red. Unable to pay the rent, or any of the other household bills, Nancy begged Jeremy to write his bills out in longhand and promised to type them herself. But he ignored her pleas, and sometimes even left town to begin another assignment with thousands of dollars of uncollected monies out of Nancy’s grasp. It infuriated her that he could be so irresponsible, knowing that he had three dependent children and a wife who didn’t earn nearly enough to pay the household expenses.

But her aggravation did not end there. Nancy found it even more maddening that he refused to purchase health insurance for the family, citing his distrust for the companies that sell the policies. Instead, before he departed town for a job, Jeremy routinely handed Nancy an envelope stuffed with thousands of dollars in cash, and instructed her to use the money in case one of the children had to go to the hospital.

He continued to drive Nancy crazy when he was home between cases and constantly underfoot. As she struggled to get the kids off to school, stock the house with food, do the laundry, and get to the computer to work on her novels, her husband was spending his days lifting weights, jogging around the canal, and sunning himself on the rooftop.

Nancy found herself fighting to keep from falling into a depression. In addition to the family’s financial pressures, she was distraught over her health and her displeasing physical appearance. With little time for exercise and food preparation, she snacked on junk food, all the while struggling to lose the weight she still retained from her pregnancies. Sometimes she resorted to ingesting a variety of diet and nutritional supplements and cutting down on her intake of food. But worrying about every calorie added even more stress to her already pressured life.

She was also growing restless with the Regencies that she was authoring, and found herself longing to write books that presented more of a challenge and promised greater financial rewards. Since The Mayfair Season, she had published A Season Abroad, which was released shortly after her first book in 1988.

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