Opinions on a 6 year age gap? She’s 18 I’m 24?

So there’s this girl I work with and she’s frankly amazing, she very mature and in my entire life no one has given me butterflies like she does. We speak a lot, like she’ll always come up on snapchat if I upload a story or even just to check in and she always initiates contact. When we talk she maintains eye contact with me all the time and smile and laughs at my jokes. We went out for food last week and things were just so natural and chill. I’ve asked her out again and we’re hopefully going out near the end of next week. My question is do you think she sees me as a friend or something more? When we talk I do call her beautiful and compliment her where I can. She doesn’t seem to flirt back but I’m guessing she’s the shy type. Once asked her how she’s approach a crush and she said she’s usually hopeless and hopes they approach her instead. She played with her hair a lot when we went out for dinner too. Should I tell her how I feel when we go out next?