Illya exhaled slowly, a tiny bit of panic spiking in him as Gaby asked her own questions rather than answered his. “I think I would have, eventually,” he replied. Solo had been pushing him in that direction. “Here it is much easier to say because we are not technically work partners. I wanted to remain professional at home.”
That was most of his reasoning behind staying quiet. He did not want to make Gaby feel uncomfortable or like he was advancing on her. Now with so much in their lives changed and the uncertainty of it, Illya wanted to make sure that Gaby knew how he felt.