Sara I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Marino wanted a truce? He was offering to just leave us alone? Could it be true? And what would Jaxon say? I wanted to trust that the offer was real; I just had no idea what to believe anymore. "So, just to be clear, you're saying that we stop fighting with each other, we each keep our own businesses, and we're good," Jaxon said, and he sounded as shocked as I felt. "You really want a truce?" "Not just a truce, more of a collaboration," Marino responded. "I think that you and I could work well together. I'm not saying that we could trust each other overnight. It might not even work out in the end. But I think that if we tried, we might be able to work well together. I have a lot of enemies, I think you are aware of that. Maybe you and I cou