"Mahor yimharenah — to himself as a wife" — the Mekhilta asks whether the seducer can take the woman as his wife even if her father objects. Perhaps the Torah's language implies an automatic right of marriage following seduction.
(Exodus 22:16) answers this decisively: "If her father refuse, refuse to give her to him, then money shall he pay according to the price of the virgins." The doubling of "refuse" emphasizes the father's absolute right of refusal. If the father consents, the seducer may take her. If the father does not consent, the seducer may not take her — and he still pays the financial penalty.
The father holds veto power. The seducer cannot override parental authority by claiming a right to marry the woman he seduced. His crime does not create a right — it creates an obligation (to pay) and an option (to marry), but only if the father agrees.
This ruling protects both the father's authority and the daughter's welfare. The father evaluates whether the seducer would be a suitable husband. If the father determines that the marriage would be harmful to his daughter, he can block it entirely while still collecting the financial compensation. The Torah does not reward the seducer with guaranteed access to the woman. It gives the father the final say over whether the seduction leads to a marriage or merely to a payment.