It was no secret that Felicia had birthed only a single child with Michael and that was a boy. After her near-death experience during her first pregnancy, her family, who valued her a whole lot, concluded that the boy was enough. They had Michael get a vasectomy so there would be no occurrences of a second child.
Michael had no choice. In that family, although Felicia bowed to him, he bowed to her family members. He had no say in the home.
However, from a recent discovery Ashley had let Carlton uncover, Michael had never actually gotten the vasectomy. He bribed both the doctor and the nurses and made it seem as though he had undergone the surgery.
With that, he went on to have kids with his mistress because apparently, he needed more successors. Ashley was extremely disgusted by this news. Nonetheless, it was good news to her but not to Michael.