Excerpt: Flightpath by Amber Addison
- Readers Together
- Apr 18, 2017
- 3 min read
SYNOPSIS
From New York Times best-selling author Cristin Harber and Amber Addison comes an exciting collaboration…
Being married young isn't a thing of the past in Louisiana. And for Madelyn and Seth, it's a way of life. Except, no one prepared them for the road ahead.
Moving to new places more times than either of them could count with new battles to fight at every stop, their road to happiness is bumpy.
Between Air Force Pararescue school, deployments, a baby, and the strain that military life can put on a family, they’ve discovered life has to fall apart in order to fall back together again.
When a terrorist attack puts Maddie's life in grave danger, their lives definitely fall apart, and Seth knows saving her might be the only thing that saves them.
PURCHASE LINKS
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EXCERPT
Maddie
The rest of Seth’s deployment went by slowly. I started a job as a journalist for a local women’s magazine. It wasn’t my favorite job, but it was work. It kept me busy. I started a journal. I wanted Seth to have it if he ever had to leave again. So that he’d have a page to read every single day, and then he would never forget that I missed him as much he missed me. I probably missed him much more. I sent Seth care packages bi weekly. Usually, I just sent things he had asked for. Most were normal comforts of home that the guys just didn’t get in a war zone. The PJs didn’t get to really leave their small base, so it was whatever they had there and that was it. He would ask for new underwear, and I’d send the most ridiculous pairs I could find, usually with hearts or some silly saying across the ass. He’d ask for nudes. I might’ve sent those, too. He’d ask for batteries, books, magazines.
Like I said, pretty normal stuff. But sometimes? Sometimes his requests were just plain weird. Once he asked for a box of condiments. I remember laughing because I thought that he had said “condoms” and I was staring at him via video like he was a crazy person. I remember asking if I should be worried that Matt had finally taken the top dog throne and it was only then that I realized he said condiments. He picked on me for weeks about how my mind was in the gutter. Anyway, he just wanted all the condiments. And he wanted construction paper and glue.
I don't even know. He asked for balloons and whipped cream one time. I was too scared to ask what he was doing with whip cream and balloons, but I sent every item he asked for as quickly as I could get a box together and get to the post office. I’d always hide something a little naughty in the box at the very bottom, under whatever packaging protection I used. The first time it was found by Matt. It had just been a picture of me in one of his Air Force PT tees, so not a huge deal. It was just Matt, after all. I had plenty of ammo on him by talking with Katie. But still, lesson learned about physical naughty things in the mail.
After that incident, Seth always opened the box from the bottom up and got whatever item I had sent out from the bottom before the box was ransacked by the rest of the guys. Care packages were fun. I enjoyed putting them together and it made me feel like I was keeping our spark alive by never letting him believe I had forgotten about him. While far away, that man was never out of my heart. That was one thing that would never change throughout his military career.
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I had to include the teaser below because it's a fantastic quote from this outstanding, emotionally driven book. Also you'll find the YouTube video for Ed Sheeran's Perfect - which could have been written about Seth and Maddie. I love it soooo much.
AUTHOR BIO
Amber Addison is a southern mama who writes about real life love in small town USA. She enjoys writing contemporary romance that has it's ups and downs just like the trials that we face in our day to day. Love isn't perfect and she doesn't pretend that it is. Amber writes anything from swoon worthy military guys to sexy soccer players. When she's not writing about hot guys and strong women, she's reading or cleaning up an endless trail of toys left behind by her dogs and daughter or getting tattoos.
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