Mariko's POV
I sat at the boardroom table at Sternpass in London. I was not really interested in this meeting as I was thinking about Maddie. She will be writing one of a few exams this week. I hope that she will be calm during the exam and have full confidence in herself. I clicked the pen as this meeting was about schools. Something that Mark Stern had begun. Now, usually I am the one to be traveling around the world for work. I haven't done it in a few months, but now I am "needed" to be part of these meetings.
"Mariko, what do you think?" I snapped out of my thoughts.
"Can you repeat it, please?" I asked Cheryl, the woman that was hosting this meeting.
She let out a sigh, "I need you to be focused on this meeting. This is something that I have called everyone on the board to att
