Riven stared at his father for a few seconds, he drummed his finger on the table a few times. The solution here would have been for him to accept his father's apology and be at peace, but since his father had decided to speak now, he wasn't allowing him off that easy.
"No, I do not forgive you." He said in a sharp tone. His father's eyes widened when he heard that; he definitely did not expect that response, he thought Riven would accept and all would be good.
"W...why not?" His father asked.
"Because you didn't come to ask for mercy out of the goodness of your heart. No, if that was the case, I would have forgiven you in a heartbeat." Riven said and got on his feet. He placed both hands on the table, looked his father dead in the eye and spoke.
"You apologized because I earned that apology. You didn't do it because you found error in your ways or in the way that you raised me, you did it because you felt I had shown you that I wasn't actually a problem child.
