Give up your life redux

            Gem had watched Jarod and his father. In the beginning, at what he thought of as his kidnapping, he had watched Jarod’s father throw himself in the path of the car to let Jarod escape. To let him escape. In the midst of his own fear and confusion, he understood that. And at the end, at what he thought of as his escape, he watched Jarod throw himself in the path of bullets to protect—his enemies? To allow his father to escape. To allow him to escape. Jarod had given up his freedom, his life, for him. For Gem.