Dangerous Love

He walks the edge of his marriage and flirts with danger. Experimenting with crank and clubs. Each night he comes home late he says he's been at the office late. Maybe he was there late, but he wasn't alone. His life is being flipped upside down. The crank starts calling to him every minute of every day. He starts having mood swings and hits his wife. She tries to fight back, but she's not strong enough. Does he realize that he's demoralizing his wife? He hits her so hard that she cannot get up. She just lies there on the floor, minutes slowly passing. Life is ticking away. She's losing consciousness. Blood starts to trickle down her face where she hit it on the banister on the way down the stairs. When her husband returns, she's dead. He falls to his knees next to her and realizes that CRANK is a monster. He cannot live with this, knowing he killed his wife. He pulls out a knife and stabs himself so he will die just as slowly and painfully as she did.