Instead, Knox leaned closer, breathing heavily, eyes scanning deeper into the machine’s internal frame like someone searching through memories rather than machinery. The silence around him grew heavier than the noise had been. Even the café music seemed distant now.
He dropped the pry bar.
Kneeled slightly.
And reached both arms deep into the machine, past the cash, into a narrow hidden space no customer was ever meant to notice.
That was the moment people realized this wasn’t about stealing.