“Is he okay?” Chloe asked the Lady of the Lake, who was checking Ethan’s condition. “Will the Witch be able to control him to do her bidding?”
“He is safe. However, the Witch absorbed a lot of his blood and essence, so he probably wouldn't wake up until tomorrow,” Lilian replied. “Besides, you already destroyed the unfinished painting. He would not completely fall under Nicole’s control. But…”
“But what?” Chloe asked.
“It seems that he has also lost something precious to him,” Lilian said softly as she held onto Ethan’s hand.
The wedding ring on his finger, which she had seen the first time she met him, was nowhere to be seen.
Chloe’s face turned solemn after hearing what the Mermaid Princess had to say. She had heard stories about people falling under the Witch’s control after they had their paintings drawn by her.
However, the witch had only targeted maidens in the past.