Two weeks passed and Azrael finally recovered. The prosecutor who kept coming back into his room, checking on him if he was ready to stand on trial, sighed in relief once the discharge of the patient was decided.
"We will be expecting you tomorrow in the trial court, Mr. Del Valle. Normally, you are to be brought into our custody, but Chairman Horace's lawyer asked us to give you a day. However, tomorrow, if you don't appear before the court at the designated time, we will have no choice but to apprehend you with force."
"I understand, Prosecutor Moore," Azrael answered.
Maxwell Moore left after that.
Azrael took Knox's hand and squeezed it, gathering courage from his husband's warmth to step forward and do that 'important' thing he had to do as soon as he was discharged from the hospital.