He hurt me, and he still is pursuing me as if nothing happened

There’s this guy that I met through a sports event & a common friend. He started pursuing me, and I was interested at first. Later on I realized that I didn’t trust him due to a girl from the event telling me to be careful around this guy. I distanced myself from him & avoided meeting him.

In October, I got a call from a girl who told me that this guy wants her & he has told her that we’ve never had any sexual relations, so she wanted to let me know that he wants her. The girl was very insulting & using vile language. Later on, this guy texted me to inform me that that was his ex who was threatening to kill herself with a knife if he continued pursuing me, and that this girl accessed his phone to contact me. This was too much drama, so I went silent on the guy for about a month, from Oct to Nov.

He made no effort to make a good apology, but still continued to text me telling me that he loved me, which I didn’t reply. Now I received one of his calls this month. It’s like he expected everything to go back to normal and there was no remorse on his side & there was a lot of victim mentality on his side (by insisting the girl wanted to cut herself) yet I’m the one who was hurt.

Now, I’ve mentioned this story because I need to decide what to do with him. Previously, I didn’t block him since we have a common friend.

He hurt me, so I strongly feel like of doing a “soft revenge” by asking him to meet me somewhere and then blocking him.

On the other hand, I feel like I should take the high road, and make peace with him. Tell him that we should just be friends since I can’t move on from the fact that he hurt me.
This is a hard thing to do since I don’t want to have to remind the person who hurt me what he did.
Besides, he has been pursuing me recently, so I need to know what to do with him.