Rose drew in a deep breath, her heart breaking for Dennis and everything that had happened to him, the shit the people he had cared so much about had put him through. “Colin didn’t leave you,” she said quietly. “He was unfairly taken from you, but he didn’t leave you, love.” She had never known Colin, only heard about him from Dennis, and Tom and Paden? Lifting her head, she moved until she could rest it on top of Dennis’ shoulder. Slowly her fingers stroked through his hair. “Tom and Paden? The only thing you’re guilty of there, babe, is a case of poor taste, and I think we’ve all been there. They didn’t see what they had in you, and that is their loss, not yours.”