Chapter 174

“It’s so good to see you again! Gwen is not with you, yet you still have a beautiful woman on your arm. Have you been able to reconcile your generous offer with your friends?” asked Varvara.

“My friends support this venture unequivocally. It wasn’t really necessary to threaten Ukraine to persuade us to build a hospital in Moscow. You should have called us and asked,” suggested Steve. “Mrs. Suchkov, it is nice to see you again! I hope you are feeling well.”

“Thanks to you, I am doing very well. Sometimes I have bad dreams about those two Chechens that attempted to kidnap me in Washington, but mostly I remember how easily you saved me from those killers and feel relief. I did not want Anatoly to force you into building a hospital, but he had his orders.”

“You would put that amount of money into Moscow if we had asked?” asked Suchkov incredulously. “That’s difficult to believe. We in the Russian government felt that Ukraine must have found a way to force you to build