Intertwining hands with a hookup?

So I have been hooking up this guy he’s not a random I have known him for years we are friends have had vacations together ect. But the sexual thing is new. It’s just so supposed to be just that a wham bam thank you and out the door but he has been holding my hand like during blow jobs and everything I don’t know what to thing about it because I have known people to have fwb and that whole intimacy thing wasn’t included it was just what they came there to do and they went about their separate lives until they needed it again. So my question is why is he interlocking his hands with mine like this? (For another context two years ago he was so drunk he doesn’t remember telling me that he was in love with me. So I’m not sure if he actually is in love with me and just to scared to say anything or I’m just looking way more into the hand thing and it’s nothing. Pleaseeeee help.