"I thought you would prefer that to the truth--better to leave you with the slim chance that your father had died a hero or was still out there for the finding than give you a man who would only betray you later, as I knew I would. We were enemies, Lloyd. I wanted to spare you the pain" --also so you could kill me without too much regret.

He had told Lloyd that he wouldn't try to excuse away anything he'd done, but Kratos felt like he at least owed Lloyd an explanation before he became sold on this idea that he hadn't considered his feelings at all--

Actually, he probably hadn't.

"But, that's no good reason, and there is nothing else I could say, so...I apologize," he said heavily. "For everything."

And that was that. He'd said all he could; whether or not Lloyd rejected him, it was out of his hands now.