(Book 1 of the Scott Family series)
Valery Coolridge has always been different. Her nose and ears are more sensitive than other's she knows and she's never quite fit in. Not to mention the sleep walking.
It's always random and she always wakes up na...
I always felt different. My senses were so much more sensitive than everyone else's seemed to be. Any strong perfume or cologne made my eyes water and my nose burn. I could hear a whispered conversation on the other side of a room and any loud, jarring noises made me want to rip my ears off.
Also, as a teenager I had no crushes on boys, or girls for that matter, no interest in sex or even masturbating, and sometimes I had the urge to do things that I knew weren't normal. I wanted to insert my dominance over other girls and even boys at school. Once I got in trouble at a foster home for putting one of my foster brothers in a half nelson when he said I was getting fat. I was only twelve at the time.
Not to mention I slept walked. I would wake up in random places around my apartment, things occasionally chewed or ripped. My best friend always joked that I must dream of being a wild animal. I just learned to live with it, chain locks on the front door, nothing pointy or breakable in plain sight, and never sleeping at someone else's house.
After 21 years, I resigned myself to never figuring out why it was happening. The idea of being poked, prodded, and studied to find out what was causing it made shivers run up and down my spine.
I grew accustomed to my strange way of living, got a job at a butcher in Coeur d'Alene in Northern Idaho.
It was a nice place, not so busy it drove me crazy. There were forests with hiking trails, but you had to be careful of wolves, though they never scared me.
Life was good, until my twenty-first birthday. After that, everything changed.
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A/N: I always wanted to write a werewolf book without the classic pack structure. We'll see if it sinks or floats, but I for one like it. Let me know what you guys think.
This chapter is just kind of an intro, setting the scene kind of a deal. Real story starts next chapter.
