Does this person love me?

This person had become friends with me since we met earlier last year, and his friend was my boyfriend, but now that me and my boyfriend broke up this friend waited a few months to tell him how he felt about me. He wants a girlfriend but he know’s I’m not quite over the break up so he suggested we can be really good friends,
be there for eachother when we need to talk to some one, he also said he will drive to my place when ever i need some one there for me and I told him he can trust me too, he said we will take things slow, he also told me he would wait until I’m ready. Every few day’s he sends me a message to say Hi and I can’t help but feel like I love him too,
I think we’re pretty much togather, I always joke around and he says he would never cheat on his really good friend haha
Any one got any good advice to give me about how to approach this?
I’ve also told him I want to be with him, and would it be slutty of me to want to sleep with him so soon? I’m really bad at these things….