The Atonement

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rob</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>: Seeing Jessica after eight years was a shock. She had taken off in the middle of the night for a life in the city leaving behind me and the future we had planned.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Life had been hard without her but now I have a daughter who is my world and a ranch staff to manage. I don't have time to go running after old dreams. Do I?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Am I able to be around her without those old feelings popping up or has life jaded me where she was concerned?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Had I ever really gotten over her?</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jessica</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>: My life in the city had crumbled. My business took a nosedive crashing off the Brooklyn bridge and my marriage sank right along with it.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The only option was to go back home with nothing to show for the last 8 yrs of my life.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Seeing Rob again was like being hit with a sledgehammer in the heart. I had walked away and not looked back.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Was he living his happy ever after without me?</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can old hurts and misunderstandings from all those years ago be healed or have they been cemented in stone?</strong></p><p></p>