Chapter Thirteen
Jasper's POV
I watch Marinna sleep peacefully on the bed in my room and I rub my face for the third time in five minutes. Carlisle is keeping an close eye on her to help find something to help her. My heart aches at the thought of possibly losing my wife. Edward comes upstairs with Emmett and they give me a small smile. I glance at them, but look back at Marinna.
"Jasper, she is not going to die if you look or walk away from her," Emmett says. I growl and he puts his hands up in surrender. "Why not just turn her?"
"She does not want that, Emmett, she does not consume meat and she prefers to be a wolf. I accept that choice she made," I say.
"But, what if we get her a new heart and it happens again?" Emmett asks.
"Then we find something else," I say. I touch Marinna's cheek and smile a little at how it feels like she is still asleep and I am just watching her sleep like always. "I will find a way to be with her forever no matter what. We made that promise and I plan to keep it."
"Jasper, she is going to die one way or the other if she is not turned. You two will have to make that choice some time soon," Edward says. My head shoots up quickly and I am on my feet.
"What did Alice see?" I growl.
"Jasper, you need to calm down," Emmett says.
"What did Alice see?!" I roar. Edward snarls, but Emmett stands between us.
"Ask her yourself if you ever leave this room," Edward growls. Esme comes into the room with a bowl of warm water and a washcloth.
"You two can leave so I can bathe Marinna. Jasper, I will keep an eye on Marinna while you go see Carlisle in the study," Esme says. I look at Marinna for a moment, but know she is in safe hands with Esme. Edward and Emmett walk down with me to the study. Carlisle is looking over a few books with Matthew sitting in one of the chairs at the table. Matthew looks up at me with hope in his eyes.
"Jasper, I need to talk to you about a possible plan to help Marinna," Carlisle says. I sits across from Matthew quietly, waiting for Carlisle to finish. "We can do a heart transplant."
"With whose heart? We cannot get a human heart because it is unable to handle the venom. It won't work," I say.
"Not with a human heart, my heart," Matthew says. I turn to see if he is joking, but he has a serious look on his face.
"You have to be joking. Marinna is not going to let you die to give your heart to her," I say.
"I would not be dying, I can be turned after the surgery like Bella was when Nessie was born," Matthew says.
"We don't have the resources or the tools to do the surgery without someone knowing, Carlisle. Someone will find out about Matthew and Marinna. We cannot do it here either because we do not have the tools or anything you need in the hospital. How do you plan to do a heart transplant and still be able to turn Matthew in a human hospital?" I retort.
"I can find a way to get the transplant done without any harm to either of them," Carlisle says.
"No, you will not cut open my wife unless you have a plan that is well planned out. I will not let you just throw that out there with the possibility of her dying," I growl.
"We can do it here and I get the supplies if that is what you want," Carlisle says. I stand up, slamming my hands on the table.
"No! Find another way to keep Marinna alive!" I roar. Alice walks in and our eyes connect the moment I feel her feelings about something with Marinna. "What did you see, Alice?"
"Jasper, you have to sit down for this," Alice says. She walks over to sit next to me and I fall into my chair, praying that she did not see me losing Marinna. "Okay, I saw her in a vision. Now, she is alive, Jasper, and she is happy."
"Okay, that is good," I say quickly.
"But, she lives through what Carlisle and Matthew are proposing. We can find someone that can do this or sneak in somehow. But you have to believe that this is the best option right now," Alice says. I sit back in my chair and look up at the ceiling, thinking back to everything I have been through with Marinna since we first met.
"How do we know that we will not have to find another solution in years to come?" I ask, still looking at the ceiling.
"Matthew's heart is more susceptible to the venom for some reason," Carlisle says.
"It mostly because I accepted my vampire side and have not been bitten so many times by vampires," Matthew says. I look at Matthew in hope he is being serious in this.
"We need to wake up Marinna to see what she has to say," I say.
"That might make it worse," Carlisle says. "We might have to leave her in her coma and try to do the surgery. But, Jasper it is up to you to make the best decision."
"Alright, give me until tomorrow," I say. I get up to be with Marinna before the conversation continues even more. My head and my heart cannot take all this for much longer. I arrive upstairs to see that Manny has brought Annabella up to see her mama. My sweet princess babbles as she reads a book to her mama and she makes sure mama is paying attention. Manny walks over to me with a small smile and we give each other a hug. The two of us just watch Annabelle spending time with Marinna and I hope it is not the last time she gets to spend with her.