Possible Clues:

• Family member to post bond
• Connection
• Joint statement succeeded previously to establish rapport
• Ecstasy involved in risk oddly leads to fashionable affair
• Roué keeping high spirits quiet in affair
• Joint accounts precede this emotional tie-up
• Rex takes joy with it being a sexual affair
• Intimate affair
• Emotional bond
• In the context of getting on board? That's Bond's job!