Flat out asking if you two have a chance? Pretty gutsy and very much pursuing. Now you better sit back and see what happens. Given his response I would be very cautious. Maybe he's keeping an open mind or maybe he's enlisting you as aid against his other ex-wife and doesn't want to put you off right now. But now that you've said and done as you have all you can do is monitor for results. As you have said previously...it might be worth exploring the possibility that he wanted a R with you if he felt there was any hope. But now the ball is definitely in his court.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
