
Author Jio
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Novels by Author Jio

Never Underestimate The Good Husband
First-Person POV
Steamy
Fast-Paced Plot
CEO
Intelligent
Contract Marriage
Love after Marriage
Flash Marriage
Never Underestimate The Good Husband
Victor Hayes thought losing his business was the worst thing that could happen to him.
Then he lost his wife.
After his once successful company collapses, Victor is forced into financial hardship, working multiple jobs just to survive. Instead of standing beside him, his wife, Tasha Vron, grows bitter and resentful, eventually leaving him when he can no longer provide the life she wants.
Heartbroken, Victor finally signs the divorce papers as Chiara Hill makes him an offer that could change everything.
She needs a husband to silence her overbearing parents.
He needs the money to rebuild his business.
Their solution?
A one-year marriage.
But Victor has one condition: if they’re going to pretend to be husband and wife, they have to live like one. Same home. Same bedroom. Same bed. And whatever happens between them is fair game.
What begins as a cold arrangement soon becomes dangerously intimate.
Their stolen kisses last too long. Their touches linger and the chemistry between them becomes impossible to dismiss or control.
But just as Victor’s business begins rising again, he discovers a devastating truth.
His first company’s downfall wasn’t an accident.
Tasha Vron was behind it.
Now Victor must confront the woman who destroyed everything he once built while trying to protect the one thing he never expected to find, a genuine love with Chiara.
But their marriage has always had an expiration date.
And just when they finally begin believing their love is real, a buried secret from Chiara’s past threatens to tear their carefully rebuilt lives apart.
Because the hardest part was never becoming a good husband.
It was finding the right woman to become one for.
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Chapter: Unexpected Guests
The night we got back was more intense. The drive home was so silent that even a pin dropping inside such a cushioned car could probably have been heard. We reached the house, and I finally spoke. “Well, that was intense,” I said, looking at her. She only replied with a quiet, “Yeah.” “How did I do?” “Not bad,” she responded. “Not bad, huh?” I smiled. “Then I have to give a second one to up my ratings.” I expected her to move backward a little. She didn’t. So I went in and kissed her. She kissed me back. And that was it, whatever distance we’d been carefully maintaining disappeared. We stopped thinking about the arrangement, the agreement, the one-year deadline, and everything that was supposed to make this simple.For that moment, there was only us.We could have stopped but neither of us did.Before I could fully process what was happening, we had found ourselves in our room, caught somewhere between restraint and desire.I knew we were crossing a line.I a
Last Updated: 2026-08-18
Chapter: The First Kiss
Maya stayed.Not for ten minutes.Not for an hour.She stayed long enough for the awkwardness in the room to disappear and for Chiara to regret opening the door in the first place.“So,” Maya said, dropping onto the sofa. “You two are actually getting married?”Chiara folded her arms.“Yes.”“Actually?”“Yes, Maya.”“You’re serious?”“Yes.”Maya looked at Victor.He nodded.“Very serious.”Maya’s eyes widened.“Oh, this is good.”Chiara groaned.“Don’t start.”“I’m not starting anything.”“You’re already starting something.”Maya laughed.Then she looked at Victor again.“Okay. I have questions.”“Go ahead.”Chiara immediately looked at him.“Victor.”“What?”“You don’t have to answer everything.”“I don’t mind.”Maya grinned.“First question. How did this happen?”Victor glanced at Chiara.“She proposed.”Maya’s mouth dropped open.“She did what?”Chiara’s eyes widened.“Victor!”“What? It’s true.”Maya burst out laughing.“You proposed to him?”Chiara sighed.“It wasn’t exactly roma
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Chapter: Learning The Arrangement
The first thing Chiara did after I agreed to move into her room was point toward the hallway.“Come on.”“Where are we going?”“You need to know where everything is.”“I thought you were giving me a tour.”“I am.”She walked ahead of me.I followed.The house was even larger than I’d realized the night before. Everything had its place. The furniture was modern, the walls decorated with carefully selected pieces of art, and there was barely a surface without something deliberately arranged on it.“You really like things organized.”“I like knowing where things are.”“Same thing.”“No. You’d understand if you saw your own room.”“I don’t have a room here.”She looked over her shoulder.“You do now.”We reached a set of double doors.Chiara opened them.I stopped.“This is your wardrobe?”She gave me a look.“Yes.”The room was enormous.It wasn’t a wardrobe.It was a clothing store.Shelves lined both walls, displaying shoes, bags, watches, folded clothes, accessories and enough outfits
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Chapter: The Condition
“But there’s one condition, though…”Chiara’s smile disappeared.She leaned forward slightly. “What condition?”I held her gaze.For some reason, the question felt heavier than it should have.“You said this marriage lasts one year.”“Yes.”“And after that year, either of us can walk away.”She nodded slowly. “That’s the agreement.”“I’ll agree to that.”Her eyebrows lifted.“But?”“But while we’re married, we’re actually married.”She stared at me.I continued before she could interrupt.“I don’t want us pretending whenever someone is watching and acting like strangers when we’re alone. If we’re going to do this, we do it properly.”“What exactly does ‘properly’ mean?”“It means we share a home. We share a bedroom. We eat together. We go out together. We attend events together. We take care of each other.”I paused.“And whatever else married couples do is fair game.”Her eyes widened slightly.“You’re serious.”“Very.”“Victor…”“You’re asking me to become your husband.”“I know.”“
Last Updated: 2026-08-18
Chapter: One Condition
I spent the next two days doing something I had become painfully good at.Overthinking.Chiara’s proposal sat in the back of my mind from the moment I woke up until the moment I fell asleep.Marry her.One year.A business funded.A clean arrangement.Simple.Except nothing about marriage was simple.I’d just spent six weeks watching my own marriage disintegrate.How was I supposed to walk into another one?Even if it was only a contract.Even if there were no expectations of love.Even if Chiara had made it perfectly clear that she didn’t need a husband.She needed a shield.And I needed a second chance.It should have been an easy decision.It wasn’t.Because there was still Tash.I hated admitting it.But there was.Some part of me still believed that if I could just have one proper conversation with her, maybe we’d find our way back to each other.Maybe she’d calm down.Maybe she’d remember everything we’d built.Maybe she’d realize that losing my business hadn’t changed who I was
Last Updated: 2026-08-18
Chapter: The Business- Marriage Proposal
Six days.That was how long I had spent staring at the divorce papers.They sat on the kitchen counter every morning like an accusation.I had signed nothing.Not because I didn’t understand what Tasha wanted.I did.That was the problem.I understood her perfectly.I just didn’t understand how the woman who once called me her safe place had become the person making me feel like I was a burden.Maybe I’d been holding on to a version of her that no longer existed.Or maybe I’d been holding on because accepting the truth meant admitting that my marriage was over.By the sixth day, I was exhausted from thinking about it.So I did what I always did when life became unbearable.I worked.My third job ended at four in the afternoon.I had another shift at six.Which left me exactly two hours to eat something, shower, and pretend I wasn’t falling apart.I stopped at a small café near my workplace.I ordered coffee and sat in the corner with my laptop.For the first time in weeks, I opened th
Last Updated: 2026-08-18
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