For a moment, Lyle just stood there, watching the little girl's back and for a moment, he seemed to see Kia's back when she was ten years old, walking away from him when he said that he couldn't go to the speech contest she was participating in because at the same time there was a futsal competition that Daniel was participating in.
Or when he couldn't come to a race Kia was competing in because they were busy at work.
He watched Kia walk away with her shoulders drooping in disappointment.
And it wasn't just her childhood but several other incidents flashed back into Lyle's mind and this made him frown, as his chest ached with the feelings he was trying to suppress.
All the memories he thought he had forgotten or the events where he thought he did right, felt so unfair.
It was as if all those memories had come back to him and he could now see more clearly what kind of parent he was to Kia and how he had treated her so unfairly.
