Chapter Thirty-one.

At that moment, I felt empathy for him. He appeared broken and in distress to me. After all these years, I thought was leading his best life.

Now I realized that being away from us was taking a big toll on him.

Just in time our food arrived, I sat up straight as the waiter placed our order in front of us. I could taste the medium-rare steak in my mouth.

Immediately after my meal was placed on the table, I quickly picked up the cutlery, and by cutting a piece of the steak, straight it went into my mouth.

Gosh! I've never enjoyed steak as much as I was enjoying every bite I took from the steak.

I slowly opened my eyes when I noticed how quiet the atmosphere had become, I looked up and found my dad staring at me. Ouch, I forgot that we were having a conversation. After chowing down the piece of meat in my mouth, I turned to him.

" Why did you leave us?" I sounded so benign, so I was unbothered, but honestly, I couldn't help but care for him.

I've longed for the day I would be able to as