Just Ice- Volume One. One, #1

Growing up in crime families and the environment that they grew up in, the Fifth Ward projects, no one blinked an eye when best friends Ice and B began hustling. The towering figures first order of business was to convince Ice's notorious brother, Johnny Matthews, a.k.a. J-Deuce, due to his reputation of always carrying two Glock nine pistols, to join them and provide security. The three of them wanted to form a crew that ran their business "outside of the box, " in their approach.
A crew that stressed discipline and structure, forming a council, and a team of beautiful, sexy lady killers, they named the "Sexy Assassins" to perform the crew's dirty work, when needed.    Ice, Tyrone Matthews, the all-American athlete and football star could not shake his family's deep hustling bloodline. The confident, laid back, cerebral, leader wanted to conduct business different from the other crews in the city.   B, Reginald Collins, meanwhile, the street basketball star, was the crew's live-wire, quick tempered, and down for whatever should pop off.
Fifth Ward's yen and yang in their approach, but united in their execution.    "Why do the residents in our hoods have to live like their lives don't matter? We won't run ours like that." Ice asked J-Deuce and B.    Trina, the crew's First Lady, Ice's childhood crush and love interest, the five feet inch tall, dark mocha chocolate skinned with a body shaped like an Olympic track sprinter, known in the projects as a "pit-bull in a skirt."     Ice and the crew's goal was to see everyone escape out of the 'trap game, ' before they became a statistic: locked away in prison or worse, dead, but with crooked cops, jealous rivals, and over eager hustlers within, would the crew's goal become actualized?