Twisted Triangle: A Famous Crime Writer, a Lesbian Love Affair, and the FBI Husband's Violent Revenge by Caitlin Rother

Author:Caitlin Rother [Rother, Caitlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Psychology, General
ISBN: 9780470505649
Google: e1-Kz4q82hQC
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-03-23T21:16:59+00:00

Margo and Gene soon returned to their preprison custody arrangement. He would pick up the girls from school on Tuesday afternoon, and Margo would take them from Saturday morning until she dropped them at school on Tuesday morning. Gene also got the girls every third weekend.

The major change for Margo was that she insisted on picking them up in a very public place. Gene wanted to make the exchange in the police dispatch center parking lot in Woodbridge, but Margo refused because she knew it would be isolated on Saturday mornings. She decided on the much busier Food Lion parking lot in Manassas, where she would always park at least seven spaces away from his car. If he got there after she did and pulled up next to her, she would back out and drive to a spot further away. She wanted to be sure that the girls had to walk some distance across the lot to meet her.

Sometimes Margo brought Dianna or her neighbor Beth Carter to pick up the girls, and sometimes she didn’t, so that Gene would never know whether she would come alone.

Gene had lost his confident swagger in prison. He always had dark circles under his eyes and seemed exhausted. His body looked softer and less physically fit than before, but the anger in his eyes was fiercer than ever. Margo could see the loathing there, and it scared her.

Pat Hammond, Gene’s divorce attorney, arranged for him to live in the basement of a home in Manassas that was owned by a real estate agent she knew. Allison and Lindsey told Margo that the basement had only one large bedroom with three beds and that their father snored so loudly they had trouble sleeping.

Margo asked Betty to look into the living arrangements because she thought that the girls were old enough—Allison was now eight and Lindsey was six—to need some privacy, not to mention a good night’s sleep. Word came back that Gene was going to be moving into a rental house after the girls’ school year had finished. In July, he moved to a quiet cul-de-sac with a rural feel on Old Bushmill Court in Manassas. Margo immediately suspected they would have a problem when school started again in the fall because Gene’s new house was about seven miles away from Westridge Elementary, where the girls had been going for the past year.

That summer, Margo and the girls got a new dog, a cocker spaniel that Allison named Pellet. Margo worked out an arrangement with her neighbor Beth, who would talk to Margo through the window while she walked the dog at night.

Other than that, Margo didn’t leave the house after dark, not even if they’d run out of milk. Allison had a habit of leaving the front door unlocked, but Margo wouldn’t go in without first yelling out her daughters’ names or using her cell phone to call the house phone to see if anyone was home.

“I lived my life and I waited,” Margo said later.

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