Minute Cryptic

Our definition here is 'Prudence', and our answer will be another word for that.

This clue's indicators are 'shortly', 'after', 'rejected', and 'confessed'. One of these is a kind of contraction indicator flagging that we need to find a compressed version of some neighbouring fodder. Another is a homophone indicator - take a word, speak it aloud and find its sound-alike. A third is a deletion indicator - some fodder will be removed from some other fodder. And 'after' suggests repositioning: what comes before it will go on the other side of what follows.

This clue's fodder is 'Dominic', 'Lewis', and 'Ellie'. We'll use these words as the ingredients for our answer, combining them as guided by the clue's indicator(s).