Story: What Becomes

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260 word fill for the "Lying" square of my February 2021 Valentines Bingo card, this is set sometime in the future of the story "World Renowned, C. Herish, Whip Master."

What Becomes

She was a liar, who’d built her life upon the foundation of a single, bitter lie. She’d chosen one passion over another and now she wondered just how much it was going to cost her. The truth would mean being tied bodily to a Judicial Whipping Post at best or her head in a noose at worst, but continuing to lie about who she was, how she was, would mean the expense of never giving her heart to another.
 

Choose to open up to being a submissive once more, and she’d likely never hold her Master Bullwhip in her hand again, never wield its power for the pleasure of another. Or she could cling to the lie of being a Dominant, and she’d never be allowed to take a place at Rion’s side, either as a concubine or perhaps, as he’d hinted in their private Vidcalls, something more.
 

C. cupped her face in her palms and snarled. She didn’t know who she would become if she finally dropped the façade, didn’t know what kind of life she could carve for herself if she turned her back on the Dom Persona she’d inhabited the last ten years of her life. Wasn’t certain she was willing to waste the years of self-sacrifice simply for a potential love. No guarantee that if she did, and failed, that there’d be a path back to the life she’d made for herself as C. Herish, Whip Master.
 

What becomes of liars who choose to stop lying when their whole world is on the line either way?