How about this? The waiter has a possessive non-human lover who arranges for magical 'accidents' to happen to anyone who seems to be getting too close to the waiter. The waiter refuses to let himself believe that his lover is causing the accidents out of subconscious fear that if he upsets his lover he'll be the next victim. Anita and her group manage to survive the first accidents - which just pushes the lover to get more extreme...

With this, she could even keep the title!