Husband's emotional affair w/employee

My husband recently had an emotional affair with his employee. I found out about and he has told me everthing (I think). He say's its over but they work together VERY closely. He is her boss. From all i have learned it sounds like they were deeply/intensely emotionally involved and 2 months ago (to the day) they told each other they were in love with each other. He equated what he felt to for her to what he felt for me when we got married. His exact words to her when she asked him how he felt were, "let me put it this way, the last time i felt this way abt someone I was 17 years old. And i ended up marrying that person". He and i started dating when were 17. We got married after college. We were both 23. We are now both 39 and have 2 daughters. (his AP is 24, btw). They were never physical but teetered on the line 2 months ago. They got as far as agreeing to go back to his hotel room after gng to a concert where they held hands, rubbed legs etc. in the hotel room he decided he cldnt go thru with it. Not bc of me but bc it went against his morals as a married man. (he told me that i was never a consideration, just his morals-he cldnt really explain why). She cried so he sat on the bed and she laid on his chest (clothed). They were both vert sad. Before they left the hotel they had a very intense "embrace" where they stood foreheads touching, eyes closed, just both silently acknowledging their sadness of the realization this could never be. They then went out and met up with friends (it was abt 1am at this point). I asked him why after all that did they go back out together. He said he wanted to stay in the moment bc he knew once that night wa over he could never go back. He wants to stay in our marriage, he says he 100% commited to us. He also said that relationship is over and he has shut his feelings down. He said a relationship with her just cant happen (for many reasons) so theres no point in hanging onto and trying to analyze the feelings. Its done. I have a really hard time believing that is even possible. Emotionally speaking i believe we arent wired that way. He says otherwise. My BIG problem is that still work very closely together in a very emotionally charged profession. He is her boss. The whole "team" at work is him (as the boss), her and one other young woman. The 3 of them sit in a tiny little office together. The company as a whole is small and they identify themselves as a "family". I know he has put up boundaries as much as he can given the environment. I also know she was very much in love with him and wanted a future with him. Since then she has respected the boundaries and they just continue to work very hard TOGETHER on projects. In the last 2 months there have been 3 occasions he took the 2 of them for drinks to celebrate smthg at work. He always asked me first. I do trust him and I do believe he wants to be in our marriage etc. i just think he might be in some real denial regarding the feelings that grew between them. Something to note...i found out after noticing he deleted all of his text messages. It took him a few days but he told me everything. If i hadnt found out his plan was to pull back on the relationship with her and they wld just continue on as great friends who work together while he wld reinvest that emotional energy back into us. Anyone have advice??

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