Coronation Street

Previously

…He’d barely known them then, a ghost of a family fractured by secrets he was only now beginning to piece together. And Rose, their mother, arrested. It was a story he’d tried to bury, a narrative too painful to revisit. But now, with Rita’s innocent concern for Maria, the past was clawing its way back, demanding to be heard. He looked at his daughter, her brow furrowed in concentration, and a fierce protectiveness surged through him. He wouldn’t let history repeat itself. He wouldn’t let Gary Windass inflict the same kind of pain on Maria that Rose had, in her own way, inflicted on his family. He would make sure Rita understood that some lines, once crossed, could never be uncrossed.