No one's ever suggested anything more than an infatuation? By connection, I meant the fact that he was there when she turned Rasputin back on? And there's no reason to believe that she wasn't an Exo by then.
Edit: I've linked you the last forum topic I made on the subject of Cayde/Maya's history pre/post-collapse. Have a read.
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Where does it say that cayde was with the stranger when she woke rasputin?