Leah Clearwater, a strong willed, hard headed woman who was betrayed, in her eyes, by her cousin and ex-boyfriend. She assumed they had been out to hurt her but she soon figured out that neither had a say in the matter. She too had no say in the matter she currently found herself in, she was a wolf; the first female in the history of the pack to phase. Not only had she been cursed with the wolf genes her little brother, Seth, had been but he didn't think of it as a curse. Oh how wrong he was. How was it not a curse to hear every thought your pack members have, every moment in their lives. Yes this was a living hell because her alpha was none other than Sam Uley, the very man that left her, the one that was now engaged to her cousin Emily Young.
Being in a pack, she had to live through her break up from his point of view over and over. Had to hear how much Emily meant to him, had to see him make love to her. It was enough to make her wish she was dead, rather than go through this punishment. Of course Sam had to feel Leah's pain, watch her replay the horrible scene, watch himself break her heart. It hurt him to no end to have done that to her but she didn't care. No matter what he said or did would ever take away the pain. So the whole pack had been put in the middle of the Sam, Emily, Leah love triangle and they were beyond annoyed with it. Until the day they found out that Sam had a younger brother named Dillan.
He had shown up out of the blue telling Sam he had a problem that he needed help with. No one expected his problem would be transforming into a large black and grey wolf. Leah hadn't been around, trying to avoid Sam's place as much as she could. Unfortunately, or fortunately however you see it, for her Sam had called a pack meeting forcing her to face the lovebirds. She had phased to get there quicker. Breaking through the tree line of Sam's property she was nose to nose with a new wolf. Millions of imaginary bindings strung between the two, pulling them together until the bonds became taut. She couldn't take her dark chocolate eyes off of him, not that she knew who he was but in that earth changing moment she didn't care. Dillan was having the same ordeal but he had no idea what the heck was happening, so in favor of going with the flow, he fought it for all he was worth. His snarls and growls resonated in the woods. Leah was thoroughly shocked. She had thought she- no she knew- she imprinted and he was acting like he wanted nothing to do with her.
"Leah go in the woods and phase back" Sam commanded.
She turned to head into the woods but stayed in her wolf form and ran.
'No one wants me. Am I that defective that not even a stranger would want to be with me?'
In a show of distress she let out a heart wrenching howl and continued to run for all she was worth, intentionally not looking at her surroundings as to not let the rest of the pack to be able to track her. Right now she didn't want found, she didn't want to be comforted.