What is "matthews"

Usage examples of "matthews".

When Matthews had driven to Collier’s farm—with Megan in the trunk, no less—he’d found, to his shock, that the lawyer had returned.

When he was out of sight Matthews had parked in a cul-de-sac of brush beside Collier’s driveway, fifty feet from the house, had snuck into the large structure using Megan’s keys.

On Wednesday night Matthews had loosened the top step leading from her back porch to the small yard behind her house.

After Hanson had left a message canceling her regular session Matthews had called Megan and told her he was taking over Hanson’s patients.

The only hint of neurosis was understandable: Matthews found himself talking silently with Megan, repeating the various things he’d told her in the session and what she’d said to him.

But while Aaron Matthews would have liked to meditate on Megan McCall and on what lay ahead for both of them he was instead growing increasingly anxious.

Which gave Matthews the excuse to hold an obscuring Washington Post over his head as he ran to the shelter.

There were fingerprints—and the window latch in the bathroom where Matthews had snuck in was still broken.

The kid was probably in West Virginia by now and even if he managed to figure out which exit they’d taken and backtracked he’d have no way of knowing which way Matthews had gone into the maze of back roads here.

Although Matthews had been coming to the deserted hospital for the past year, ever since he’d brought his son here, he’d made a point of never stopping for gas or food at the service station or grocery store near the exit ramp off I-66.

He thought about stopping to see his son but the boy was in a different part of the hospital and Matthews had no time for a visit now.

He gripped the long knife awkwardly but with enough manic determination to make Matthews freeze and raise his hands.

With his strength it wouldn’t take much for the boy to injure Matthews seriously, without even trying.

Besides, while he believed the young man wasn’t dangerous Matthews had learned that premature diagnoses can be very risky.

And while Matthews’s words might have driven someone else to act ruthlessly and efficiently it drove Joshua manically forward toward Matthews, out of control.