15 It had been a few days since Rose had turned down Colt again. He hadn’t come back, not that she’d expected him to. Honestly, she expected him to stop doing her renovations too, judge-ordered or no. She lay on her couch after a long morning of cleaning and painting, giving Alexis some pitbull-style love. That meant that Alexis was stretched out on the floor beneath her, showing Rose her tummy. She scratched Alexis’s belly absentmindedly. Realistically, she’d had a huge week. She’d confronted her rapist, albeit not exactly a planned kind of confrontation. And she’d kissed Colt. Alright, it was more like he’d kissed her, but still. That was a really big deal, a step in the right direction. Jared was definitely wrong when he said she would never be with anyone else. She knew that. It