At Morrow & Pike, a London advertising agency where nobody ever seems to mean exactly what they say, Matilda Quill has become remarkably good at reading everyone—except Julian March.Julian is calm, observant, and frustratingly difficult to understand. As the agency works on a dating campaign about noticing what is already in front of you, Matilda finds herself increasingly distracted by the very person she is trying not to notice. Meanwhile, her best friend Bea seems caught in a confusing dynamic with photographer Nate Calder, creating a tangled web of assumptions, glances, and badly timed interruptions.Then the misunderstandings begin to carry real consequences.Strange messages appear. A mysterious location marked B17 raises questions. A high-profile production takes an unexpected turn, and what first looks like ordinary workplace chaos begins to feel far more deliberate. As Matilda, Julian, Bea, and Nate are drawn deeper into the mystery, they must work out who they can trust—and what everyone has been hiding.Funny, romantic, and quietly suspenseful, WHAT YOU THOUGHT I MEANT is a story about missed signals, mistaken assumptions, unexpected danger, and the complicated truth waiting beneath the things people say.Sometimes the person you think is looking at someone else is actually looking at you.