Background: I have worked with this girl for best part of a year. The relationship has been professional throughout and everything has been work focused. I have always found her to be really nice, polite and intelligent.
For me personally I broke up with my long term girlfriend of 7 years in March and have been single and not particularly interested in dating.
Last week, I got a phone call from an unknown number and it turns out to be this girl I work with, she explains that she hopes I don't mind her contacting me and that she needed to talk to me because of how she feels about me. She goes on to say that she finds me beautiful inside and out and after hearing from a colleague that I was not in a relationship she felt like she wanted take some action and wanted me to know how she felt.
The caveat: she then goes on to say the issue, she has a boyfriend of 12yrs and wanted to know how I would feel about getting to know her better and seeing how things develop.
In response to this, I was taken aback by it and didn't really know what to say but it did feel very good. I said that she should figure out her relationship and take it from there. She agreed but continued to compliment me and we ended the conversation.
The next day we exchanged some messages and they were all positive. I definitely started to start feeling a certain way. Over the weekend I didn't hear from her but she definitely stayed on my mind.
Today: she calls me and then tells me she has spoken to her boyfriend and asked him how he would feel about her having me as a friend. Obviously he wasn't happy about it... Now she is saying we shouldn't speak anymore and wasn't sure what she was going to do but wanted to be honest with me.
How should I act now? I feel like I have been through some emotions and definitely have developed an awareness of her and would be open to something but don't know how to play it.
Any help would be appreciated
